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A review by claudia_is_reading
Bitter Almonds: The True Story of Mothers, Daughters, and the Seattle Cyanide Murders by Gregg Olsen
2.0
Okay, this book was, plain and simple, boring. It goes on and on about Stella's family and her relationship with her daughter, and we never got to know a thing about the other family's victim. And yes, we need some backstory but here there are entire conversations which are repeated, verbatim, twice. All we learn at the beginning of the book is painfully detailed, AGAIN, during the trial.
Maybe the point of some much information about Stella and every person who might have, even tangentially get to known he, was to show how abuse goes from generation to generation and which os its influence in the outcome of those abused. If it was so, it failed.
The story could have been told in half the time and still cover all the facts of the case.
Kevin Pierce, though, does a good job with the narration.
Maybe the point of some much information about Stella and every person who might have, even tangentially get to known he, was to show how abuse goes from generation to generation and which os its influence in the outcome of those abused. If it was so, it failed.
The story could have been told in half the time and still cover all the facts of the case.
Kevin Pierce, though, does a good job with the narration.