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I'm almost hesitant to give this a true crime tag, because of the amount of artistic liberties the author took along the way to pad out the story. Rather than a full factual telling of what on the surface sounded like a really interesting case involving arsenic poisonings in Hungary, this felt almost historical fiction-y. The author is up front about the inclusion of fictional elements in her author's note in the beginning: "However, to fill in gaps, I have had to imagine or assume certain scenarios.", but I wasn't really expecting the whole book to read like a novel.
And the story itself, while interesting on the face of it, doesn't seem like there's more to it than what's in the title. I don't know if there just wasn't enough factual info out there to write a full length book on or what, but be prepared to read all sorts of descriptive elements about people, places, and how evil Auntie Suzy looks. The story itself really drags in places while the author shoehorns all this in, which is a shame.
Just not a great example of a true crime book, unfortunately. There's an interesting story somewhere here, but it needs more of a factual touch than it got, I think.
I'm almost hesitant to give this a true crime tag, because of the amount of artistic liberties the author took along the way to pad out the story. Rather than a full factual telling of what on the surface sounded like a really interesting case involving arsenic poisonings in Hungary, this felt almost historical fiction-y. The author is up front about the inclusion of fictional elements in her author's note in the beginning: "However, to fill in gaps, I have had to imagine or assume certain scenarios.", but I wasn't really expecting the whole book to read like a novel.
And the story itself, while interesting on the face of it, doesn't seem like there's more to it than what's in the title. I don't know if there just wasn't enough factual info out there to write a full length book on or what, but be prepared to read all sorts of descriptive elements about people, places, and how evil Auntie Suzy looks. The story itself really drags in places while the author shoehorns all this in, which is a shame.
Just not a great example of a true crime book, unfortunately. There's an interesting story somewhere here, but it needs more of a factual touch than it got, I think.