Reviews

The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg

leferkins's review against another edition

Started off well but the memoir chapter was really slow and disconnected to the rest of the story. By the time it looped back to the Rainbow Girls I was bored and found I didn't care what ended up happening.

gracefullypunk's review

2.0

My Kindle library keeps saying I've read this, but even after perusing others' reviews I can't say I remember much, beyond thinking, "Who decided this should fit into the True Crime genre?"

Save your time and find real true crime

cwittekind's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.0

paprikademon's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

i really enjoyed how Einsenberg built so many stories together & how she plants her readers in WV so clearly. great read! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, and Drug use

jobustitch's review against another edition

2.0

This book was good, but a little precious at times. It definitely could have used an editor.

gaby_b's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

lbutcke's review against another edition

1.0

This story was less about the Rainbow Murders and more the authors life in the surrounding area during a different time period. Having grown up near this area I was excited to read this book, but it was poorly executed.

bemgrace's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

cassiecraycray's review against another edition

I wanted to learn about this case and about the women, Nancy and Vicki who were murdered and their story, but unfortunately this author does a poor job of making their story the center of this book. 
Poorly written. Don't recommend.

heymagnolia's review against another edition

Just because you can write doesn’t mean you should. This feels more like a self pleasing monologue for the author than anything. This book is such an injustice to how Nancy and Vicki’s story should have been told.