Kyre Thompson's Reviews > Bright Young Women

Conflicted on this one because while I like the idea of taking power away from “the defendant” and using the media’s use of calling him a bright young man and flipping it to focus on the “bright young women” who were victims of his crimes, I also can’t help but feel like in attempting to do so the author is still sensationalizing the defendant by writing a fictional story about his victims. I don’t know, it felt wrong. Why not use a completely fictional story conveying this same message instead of using facts of the actual defendant, his victims, and then mixing in fiction as well and blurring the lines between the two.

2 stars because it is well written and I like the idea of the book, if it had been an a completely fictional story I’d probably have loved it, but I don’t know it just doesn’t sit well with me and honestly I found myself bored with it in the middle. I know I’m in the minority on this one but it just didn’t do it for me.