Review: Good stories
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2013
This books sort of reads like a few episodes of the Investigation Discovery show "Deadly Women". They are recounted well: background on the perpetrators, the actual event and why they might have done it.But there are a couple of flaws: wrong dates in a few places and strange social commentary at times. For example, at the end of one recounting of a mass murder the author states, "Sylvia is a victim of a failed mental health system" where to me it seemed like Sylvia was clearly the one to blame. At the end of the book, while the author smartly recommends speaking to a professional if someone you know is exhibiting erratic behavior, she also recommends "more gun control". Gun control for who? The mentally sick who shouldn't get guns or the general population who needs to protect themselves from these people and criminals at large? The book clearly demonstrates the need for the former but definitely not the latter.Otherwise, it's a good book and I recommend it if you're interested in learning about female rampage killers. Great title by the way (not to make light of the atrocities).