This was such a weird thing to read because I am a consumer of true crime podcasts and I can tell from the way this was written that Clark got the inspiration about them from actual podcasts. It definitely shines a light on some of the unsavory characters in the business and makes you wonder about the authors behind the books and what their intentions are. 

I would say that as an audiobook, this works really well considering a lot of the mediums referenced are audio based. I probably would've given this five stars if it hadn't dragged on in a lot of places and I don't know if the way it was structured was particularly the best way to do it. It felt like we were rehashing a lot of things by going through each girl's accounts separately rather than just compiling it all together and speaking about each girl in those scenes. 

I also wasn't totally sure that the internet culture in this was totally accurate. As someone who did grow up on LiveJournal and tumblr, those two things never actually crossed paths. Tumblr came about around the end of LiveJournal's (and the other clones) popularity. LJ still exists, albeit nothing like how it used to. It felt like Clark was mixing timelines of Millennials and Gen Z and that threw me for a loop. Maybe if you're someone who wasn't a part of these communities growing up it might not cross your mind, but I engaged in all of them so it sticks out a lot to me.