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Average Rating: Rating: - Disturbing story I have just finished this highly disturbing and very graphic book about the murder of 12 year old Shanda Sharer. This is a story that will shock even the most hardened true crime/murder readers. It is the story that nobody should have to read.I say that because it is a true account of five young women,one of whom died after being beaten,tortured and finally set on fire.Nobody likes to imagine that this sort of thing can happen but sadly,it does and it has. Too much of the fact that some of these girls are lesbians seems to give this account a reason for Shandas death.Yes,there is lesbianism going on,but there is also a deadly combination of severe child abuse,jealousy,mental illness and hate going on too. I do not like what these girls did to Shanda as nobody deserves this wickedness let alone a 12 year old child,but the sad fact is,is that Melinda Loveless,Laurie Tackett,Hope Rippey and Toni Lawrence are products of a dysfunctional way of life. What happened to Shanda is very disturbing and highly upsetting and I feel for her family and friends who no longer have her with them. I lent this book to a friend of mine who didn't like the fact that a great portion of this book concentrated on Loveless and Tackett and not so much on Shanda. I feel that Aphrodite Jones was right to portray the story this way.If we are to learn anything from this incident then we need to look not only at the victim but the accused as well. We need to analize these sorts of people and try to work out why something like this has happened and go on to try and make sense of it so that other children never suffer the same fate. A book written only about Shanda would have given us only half the story as we would then be left wondering WHY these girls did what they did and WHO were they. This book can be a bit 'tabloidy' but for those truly interested in the whole story of those that kill and the victims they choose then this book tries very hard to gather all the facts. Some of you may disagree but this book was written to give the facts,not as a tribute to Shanda.I think the author has done what she set out to do in the best way possible. Rating: - This book is not about Shanda Sharer's murder Actually, Shanda is probably the character in this book that Mr Jones knows the less about. This book is about Melinda Loveless, Toni Lawrence, Hope Rippey and Mary Laurine Tackett, about their disturbed families and their sexual tendencies, and how it explains, if not excuses (her point of view, not mine) what they did to Shanda. Loading her in the trunk, beating and abusing her with a tire iron, then burning her alive before going to McDonalds for breakfast. This is a good book if you're looking for detailed facts about the murderers of Shanda. But not even a full chapter is dedicated to the twelve year old, abused and burned alive victim. I felt that this was very disturbing because it was very obvious that the writer didnt give a care about who the victim was, what her life had been. Read this book, but read "Little Lost Angel" by Michael Quinlan, too. Then you will know the full story. Rating: - Horrific account of a 12 yr old's murder I remember when this first happened. The families of Shanda (murdered 12 yr old) and Melinda (teen ringleader) both appeared on Geraldo Rivera. Shanda's mother said she didn't blame Melinda, she blamed Melinda's parents. Read this book and you will see why. IMO, Melinda's child-molesting, wife-abusing father should have been on trial right along with her. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and Melinda's sleeze-bag of a father made her into what she is. Anyway, this book is very gripping. You will not be able to put it down until the very last page has been turned, one sitting is all it took for me! I cried reading about the horrible cruelty Shanda endured, it's hard to believe anyone could be so evil. I passed this on to my aunt, who couldn't put it down either.

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