I don't read a lot of true crime, it's not my normal genre, but it's something I do enjoy on the random one-off and fairly infrequently. I've read only perhaps 4 or 5 before this, including Mindhunter and Helter Skelter.

But recently I was in the mood for a true crime story, and downloaded 7 or 8 samples of books to try. After reading the samples, I was sucked into this story almost from the first page.

I'm not going to go into the story itself, since it's a bit self-explanatory, but rather tell you that I found the way the author told this story to be incredibly compelling, in some ways like reading a fiction novel, only knowing this is a true story made it even more chilling.

The one thing that did bother me about the story (not the writing, but the actual slant of the story) is just how much the twins and their friends are portrayed as victims. I felt some of their actions in...colluding? with Celeste in drugging & lying to Steve were indefensible, especially as older teenagers. Old enough to know right from wrong. However, I also admit that there's no way to know how they felt in that situation or why they ultimately did what they did.