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Summary: A Depressing but Important read
Review: A very intriguing look at mental illness. A very sad story, that is about the death of one family that leads to the creation of another.
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Summary: Shame on Salamon and the NYT Book Review, too!
Review: Let me say I adore Julie Salamon's writing. The Devil's Candy was an awesome book.And I adored the first half of this book which was engagingly written and exhaustively researched. The stories of the women in the group and their children were touching. But something happens after the deaths of the Rowe family. The book becomes a compendium of Robert Rowe's attempts to become a lawyer again...and the whole Colleen section was just maddening. She comes off as completely unlikeable and we're never quite clear what she sees in this man who took out his whole family. This book is a mess...and not worth recommending at all.
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Summary: Shameless Drivel
Review: This book was a huge disappointment. I felt little knowledge and insight into the killer's mind. Many people have medically involved children and do not commit such horrific acts. The bludgeoning of his family had to some from a source of fierce anger and the cause of that wasn't explained at all . His attitude towards the crime was totally unbelievable.
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