Jessica Knoll
Autor/a de Luckiest Girl Alive
Sobre l'autor
Jessica Knoll has been a senior editor at Cosmopolitan, and the articles editor at SELF. She grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and graduated from The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. Her book's Luckiest Girl Alive and mostra'n més The Favorite Sister made The New York Times Bestseller List. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Credit Richard Perry
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Coneixement comú
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
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- journalist
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Once I started listening to this audiobook, it was almost impossible to stop listening to it. Told from the point of view of two young women caught in the crosshairs of a serial killer (who's never named), the story weaves between Pamela and Ruth, one a survivor of an attack on her sorority house and the other, a victim. Extremely well done, highly recommended.
This is the story of one of the girls in the sorority house where Ted Bundy murdered two and horribly beat two young women. It is about her dealing with the tragedy, but also fighting for justice. Women are so marginalized that the police don't want to listen to her, and she ends up investigating with the help of a friend of another victim.
Everyone has heard of Ted Bundy. How many of us know the names of his victims? In Bright Young Women, Jessica Knoll seeks to redress that.
The novel is set largely on the Florida State University campus, in a sorority where one dreadful night, two students are murdered, another severely injured. There is only one eye witness to the perpetrator, the head of the sorority who is one of the main narrators of the book. One of the women killed is her best friend. Blood is everywhere. Reason and order are overturned, become chaos. It's rather the theme of the book, that one man ended reason and order, brought chaos to lives being lived normally, happily, unafraid.
The characters are vivid and expertly drawn. The historical research is excellent. The killer's name is never once mentioned. Most people know the story, so that not naming him doesn't obscure the man, the monster.
I cried when I'd finished the book. So many wasted lives. So many young women, cut down far too early. In this serial-killer obsessed world, we lose so much when we fail to tell the stories of the victims, their families, the people who were there.
Excellent book. 5/5 stars.… (més)
The novel is set largely on the Florida State University campus, in a sorority where one dreadful night, two students are murdered, another severely injured. There is only one eye witness to the perpetrator, the head of the sorority who is one of the main narrators of the book. One of the women killed is her best friend. Blood is everywhere. Reason and order are overturned, become chaos. It's rather the theme of the book, that one man ended reason and order, brought chaos to lives being lived normally, happily, unafraid.
The characters are vivid and expertly drawn. The historical research is excellent. The killer's name is never once mentioned. Most people know the story, so that not naming him doesn't obscure the man, the monster.
I cried when I'd finished the book. So many wasted lives. So many young women, cut down far too early. In this serial-killer obsessed world, we lose so much when we fail to tell the stories of the victims, their families, the people who were there.
Excellent book. 5/5 stars.… (més)
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This was quite slow, and the very gradual reveal of Ruth and Pamela's backstories was frustrating. I didn't really understand the significance of Pamela's going missing as a small child, and I found it unlikely that Ruth would have gone off with The Defendant in the way she did. There were no positively presented male characters, which made it easy to sympathize with Pamela in her dealings with Brian and Roger, but was a bit unbalanced. This was thought-provoking, but depressing.… (més)