Kathleen Hale (2) (1986–)

This is a well researched look at the 2014 headline story of two 12 year old girls who tried to kill/ stab their 12 year old friend as a sacrifice to an imaginary man, Slenderman, they followed on an intenet website. The young girl survives the horrible attack , but left with physical and emotional scars. The two girls who attacked her are both suffering from mental illness . Both tried as adults. The author details their incarcerations, treatments, hospitalizations etc and lack of much needed care within the mental health system and the judicial system. So much more needs to be done to identify and treat children with mental problems before it reaches extreme consequences in many cases. Really in interesting book.… (mais)

I'm rating this a 1.

Not because the author engaged in, by their own admission, horrible, shameless, and threatening stalking behavior of a reviewer from GoodReads.

I rate this a 1 because the essays of this book, every single one, are an attempt to normalize and justify such behavior. To cash in on victimizing another person with absolutely zero self-reflection, remorse, or awareness. It is a narcissistic exercise celebrating the author's inability to respect other people.

Which makes the book not only bad, but evil.… (mais)

Annoyed that Goodreads got funky and somehow tried to force this on my "Read" shelf. Nope, didn't read this messy book where the author is trying to justify why she stalked and then doxxed a reviewer cause the reviewer dared to not like her freaking book. Considering the crap that is going on vis a vis authors and readers on Goodreads and Amazon, you would think that more people would stay what she did was wrong. Instead, we have justifications and people out there saying that wouldn't you like to do that to someone. Nope, going after a reviewer because she or he didn't like a book is beyond ridiculous and also dangerous. The title is right, Kathleen Hale is a crazy stalker who faced no blow-back about what she did to someone else.… (mais)