This shall be my last dip into the True Crime genre for a while. As mentioned in a previous review, I have developed some pet peeves over time and this book and the one before it has checked one of those boxes with the deepest shade of blood red ink.
This book was mostly about Ted Bundy, but it contained a lot about the author and how Ted Bundy’s existence affected her. For every moment of Bundy’s life she mentioned, she matched it with information regarding whatever was going on in her life at that time. While she went on and on about herself, I would recite in my head, “I don’t care, I don’t care, I don’t care”. When I hit the updated sections at the end of the book, I cringed even harder because the all about her got even worse. With not a lot of new material regarding Bundy, she resorted to filling it by reanalyzing previous thoughts and experiences she had involving him and how they might have changed.
The only saving grace that kept this out of the two star range was that it did contain enough information about Ted Bundy to get past all her filler. It followed a clear timeline and once you cut out her speculations regarding why he thought or acted in the way he did, you could piece together the main points. I was left filling satisfied enough to not spend too much time googling him on my own.