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A review by dilchh
The Wicked Boy: An Infamous Murder in Victorian London by Kate Summerscale
4.0
This is a book about the murder that happened in 1895 London. The murder of a mother by her own 13 yo son, Robert Coombes. The book covers the story of the day of the murder, the coverup, the trial and what follow afterwards.
I genuinely wasn't expecting much about reading this book. Especially putting into account that this murder had happened so long time ago. But I had enjoyed the storytelling of the author. I felt no remorse nor hatred for Robert Coombes. The murder was to be one of those awful things that happened, I presume. But then, the author brought us along to Robert Coombes's story following the day he was sent to the asylum, all through his journey to Australia.
I rarely paid any attention to epilogues when I read a book, but I'm glad I had read the epilogue in this book. I think it was such a beautiful and bittersweet ending to the story of Robert Coombes. It was such a heartwarming feeling to have finished the book and to see Robert Coombes in a different light, and not just as someone who had killed his mother, for reasons we would never know.
I genuinely wasn't expecting much about reading this book. Especially putting into account that this murder had happened so long time ago. But I had enjoyed the storytelling of the author. I felt no remorse nor hatred for Robert Coombes. The murder was to be one of those awful things that happened, I presume. But then, the author brought us along to Robert Coombes's story following the day he was sent to the asylum, all through his journey to Australia.
I rarely paid any attention to epilogues when I read a book, but I'm glad I had read the epilogue in this book. I think it was such a beautiful and bittersweet ending to the story of Robert Coombes. It was such a heartwarming feeling to have finished the book and to see Robert Coombes in a different light, and not just as someone who had killed his mother, for reasons we would never know.