Review: Cookie Cutter / Cut and Paste
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 29, 2013
Well, this could have actually been good, if done right.  It felt like the author worked hard on chapter one, creating a dramatization of some events that (I assume) was based on fact.  Then with chapter two and beyond, it's like you're reading case after case of police records or data from Wikipedia.  A bunch of disjointed facts, some dealing with the "Grim Sleeper" and some not.  I'm not sure what some of these unrelated cases had to do with the "Story".Some of the "data" was actually interesting, but it was put together sloppily and I could have read most of the same stuff from the Internet.  Then it just sort of ended.  I later found out, by doing my own research, that the case is still pending.  Maybe he should have waited until the legal proceedings were done before doing a book on it.  Or, hmmm, maybe he could have ended the book SAYING so.This was just a weird "book".  The problem is, the free preview only contains the dramatization part of the story, which isn't too bad.  The "filler" from chapter two and beyond is not in the preview, so you don't know THAT'S what the author did until after you purchase the book.