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The Characters

Reviewed: 06-25-24

I would give good money for an entire series on Mandy and Noah! I have read all of the Huckleberry books and this one is by far my favorite! The author paints such a beautiful picture that I feel like I’m actually there! I adore The Helmuths and I love Mandy and Noah! I want to know more I want an entire series to follow them alone. Yall have to read this book!

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Biased

Reviewed: 04-04-24

It’s ridiculously biased and and not that good I could’ve written a better book and I’m not author! If you want a good and accurate book on this case read The Perfect Father by John Glatt

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Narrator

Reviewed: 03-22-24

I love these books so much but this Narrator is absolutely wonderful! The inflections in her voice and just everything about the way she tells the story draws you in and you can’t stop listening!! She could make a McDonald’s menu sound appealing!!

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The Facts

Reviewed: 03-05-24

This is an excellent book the reviews saying that it’s biased or the author is victim shaming is utterly ridiculous! It’s an extremely accurate book and tells the facts and yes Shanann was bossy and yes Chris was passive those are the facts it’s not victim shaming if it’s true! It seems to me that authors who gloss over that are doing the victims an injustice if everything we’ve heard from Shananns family is true I’m sure she would like her story told as it was and she wasn’t some mousey little fragile girl no she was a fiery independent life loving mom and depicting her any other way is an injustice to her and her memory why do we insist upon canonizing people after death? It’s ridiculous! You won’t be disappointed at all I’ve read a lot of books on this case and this one is my favorite and the most accurate

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Pennywise???

Reviewed: 03-04-24

I like the fact that she kept the Cindy and Sandy letters a part of the book and the the flow of the book is pretty good overall however I HATE the fact that the Author refers to Chris Watts as Pennywise the Clown and its extremely immature and almost comes off as comical and this isn’t a comical case. My biggest issue is the implication that perhaps the children were Sexually abused by Chris and there is absolutely no evidence of that whatsoever so I feel as an Author that’s extremely irresponsible to throw accusations out there that as far as we know are baseless and there are parts of this book where it would be literally impossible for her to know these things in detail! For example she talks about a conversation that takes place between Sandy and Shanann in private and she says Shannan’s family didn’t cooperate in this book so how would she know these things? She wouldn’t! There is a lot of bias in this book and some of the language sounds like a petulant teenager wrote this it sure would be nice if someone would just write a true and accurate account of this case and how they arrived where they did! It doesn’t do the victims any justice at all if you canonize someone after they’re gone telling the truth and victim shaming are two different things and when telling the story the way most people cover this case is Shanann was an Angel and never did or said anything wrong and Chris was always evil and just killed his wife! Anyone with any sense knows that just isn’t realistic! She was a flawed human like the rest of us and when you’re looking at this case from a mental health position it benefits no one to make it seem like she was a saint and he was the devil! Last but not least CINDY AND RONNIE WATTS killed no one! They didn’t get along with their daughter in law! Cindy didn’t like Shannan and vice versa and it’s perfectly normal for that to occur! They are not bad people they too are victims! All in all it was ok just a lot of inaccuracies and unverified claims

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