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My "why" is of course for why the terrible atrocity happened...but it is also for why any of you would purchase this collection of paper that you've dubbed with the unworthy word - "book." I must first admit that I have not read the book, nor do I intend to. For some of you that may make what I have to say unnecessary, but I argue just the contrary. I pity all of you that spent money on something so shallow and vainly complied. I was a friend of Shanda's. I went to school with her, and was the same age as her - and not a day goes by in my life when I don't think about her. The horror that I, my classmates and her family and friends went through is unspeakable. However - WE went through it. YOU did not. Profiting off of this event, and reading this squalid writing will not make Shanda come back and will not give any of you any greater understanding of the person she was and the life she led. So if you wish, go ahead and fill your minds with these hellish lies - and believe them - but know that by buying this book you are contributing to the corruption of society that caused this event to happen.
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The best book i have read !!!!!
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I really enjoyed this book.This book is very well writen.It kept my attention all the way through. I do not read books very often but this was very riveting. It was so good i have read it three times , i know that is not much but it is very good for me. This is the only type of book that i read, and is one of the best ever. I liked the way the book gave the girls back round not just the crime and nothing else. There are other books like "Death of an Angel" writen by Don Davis, which is another must to read, very moving, very well writen. Another book is "House of Secrets" writen by Lowell Cauffiel, I am only half way through the book but it is very good so far. Cruel Sacrifice is a book that can be read many times over even though you know what has happened and what the ending is.
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I loved the book.
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I was shocked when I first read about this crime in the paper after it happened. Even more shocked when I realized that I knew Hope and Toni when I lived in Madison. I was horrified when I read how Shanda was killed. It's sick. The book was very well written, and the details chilling. I strongly recomend the book. I've read it a half a dozen times.
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I found this book to be heartwrenching and riveting.
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This was one of the saddest stories I've ever heard. It goes so much deeper than the surface of four teenagers killing a pre-teen. There are a million questions .. why? Why was one molested? Why was a twelve year old allowed to go out at night? Did her parents know she was having sex with other girls at 12? Why, why, why? The book was very well written. It gave me a sense of how the girls felt as the events of the murder unfolded. Good reading.
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Good Book, My Comments...
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This was a good book, the facts were correct, but I have personal experience with these girls. I was in prison with them, and I think that Toni Lawrence deeply regrets what happened. She took no part in the killing of Shanda, her crime was simply being there, yet she recieved a 20 year sentance. It saddens me that this murder happened, but also that these girls now are growing up in the Indiana Womens Prison.
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