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Traces the events surrounding the 1997 murder of fourteen-year-old Reena Virk by eight of her peers, in an account based on six years of research and interviews with the accused that offers insight into the social tensions that provoked the crime and the minds of teenage killers. By the author of The Torn Skirt. 25,000 first printing.

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Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2024

Upsetting the girl who murdered the victim did very little time. She should have had life. She reminds me of a persons who would kill again

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2024

You know who is involved and who was killed. But it keeps you wondering will they get away with murdering their classmate? Super sad and great ending 😭

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Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2024

In today's society, killing is a way of life. It is through the way we are raised and how society reacts to the injustice of killing. Although taking someone's life is morally and in justifiably wrong, society as a whole will treat it as the way society is now.

Through my life growing up, I never heard of girl gangs getting together to kill another over petty girl stuff. There was fights between boys usually over girls or something and would fight after school, but it usually ended with them becoming friends. We were raised differently back then and parents handled their kids by disciplining them and if they couldn't handle them, they would send them to reform school.

Today society is so full of kids in juvenile situations and foster homes it just blows my mind.

How can society rectify this situation and get our kids out of this situation that has become a rising level and out of proportion.

The author has told this story with such inner depth and in hopes that someone will read it and will help all the teens and younger to stop and think about their actions before their anger rises to such levels that it will cost them their own lives.

Thank you Rebecca Godfrey.

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Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2024

Sometimes the syntax made the story confusing. Also I found the repetitive retelling of the events by so many of the characters boring. Good story, but should have been pared down.

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2024

It doesn't quite keep up with the hype of the hulu show.

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2024

Like so many made for TV series that I watch, if the story is compelling enough, I read the book. While the show was excellently written and acted, like in most cases the books are so much better. Some of the characters in the Hulu series were just completely made up, I don't think that added to the story. The book was so well written it really need dramatization. I would highly recommend both the book and the series.

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Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2024

This true crime book was a heartbreaking but thoughtfully retold story of Reena Virk. I didn't know anything about this previously as these kids were slightly older than I was at the time but saw this and became interested as I too live in the PNW. The topic was sad and disturbing-the book was filled with facts, interviews , and many points of view. I always hesitate to say a true crime book is great because these accountings are real and tragic but I'm glad I know Reena's story and I think it's important as many people see and hear it as possible. There are a lot of issues this book underlines that are still issues today. I only hope her story and the story of these children involved helps the people capable of making changes to these issues able to do so-so things like this stop happening.

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JS09

_5.0 out of 5 stars_Excellent

Reviewed in Canada on August 14, 2024

Well researched. Used this in my own research. Highly recommend.



mermaid

_5.0 out of 5 stars_Gut zu lesen

Reviewed in Germany on August 3, 2024

Nach der Mini-Serie wollte ich wissen, was wirklich geschehen war.

Das Buch beschreibt nicht nur die Fakten, sondern auch die Persönlichkeiten. Mit sanfter Stimme geschrieben.



Lynda Kelly

_5.0 out of 5 stars_This Case Had Passed Me By !!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 2, 2024

I bought myself a copy of this when I spotted the film/series has been put out online. It had been in my favourites a while and was on offer so it was the perfect time to snag my copy. I am so glad I did. It is a fascinating 'story' altogether. And I have no idea why I've not heard about it till now, either !! I guess the timing, November 1997, maybe took it away from UK news as we were probably still full of Diana's death then, and little else.

I do believe Warren wasn't as culpable as Kelly was; however, for me, Josephine was the main protagonist and she was lucky to get away pretty much scot-free.....though, she ended up as a stripper, so I guess didn't do so well for herself. I actually grew to like Warren through Rebecca's terrific writing and also Syreeta. The Russian sisters too, and I had the highest hopes they would do well for themselves. I wish she'd included photos but I will do a search on Google when I'm done here to find Reena. I did struggle to understand why Reena pursued Colin when she had a boyfriend, however. It wasn't ever really explained and left me more than a tad baffled !

I guess in some ways it's lucky the perpetrators were young, as teenage offenders can NEVER help themselves and always have to run their fool mouths and boast about what they've done. Same the world over. So we can count on them to drop themselves straight in it !! The police interviews with the kids I found really interesting as well, and I am glad she included them in full here.

She wrote some tremendous passages, such as, "She was dark-skinned and heavy in a town and time that valued the thin and the blonde".....I would hazard a guess that that remains the case if we're brutally honest. Also, "The water was so very still in the bay of recovery." A sentence she wrote about Warren and his dad had me howling...."...that was the first time his father had ever told him he was loved".....when he was in jail !! THAT speaks volumes. As does a quote from a police officer, "The kids in the beating and murder, not one of them came from an intact family." I find that extremely telling, even (and probably especially) now when the family unit has further fractured and kids' violence gets more and more extreme.

We learn near the end that the girl convicted has a child in prison.....I also find THIS wrong on just so many levels and wonder what on earth possesses some authorities !! She's perfect parent-material, of course !! Just ridiculous to allow her to be able to fall pregnant, let alone KEEP a child !!

We're also left with Suman, Reena's mother, offering Warren support and encouragement. That level of forgiveness I personally could never manage but it's admirable.

It wasn't without the odd mistake...the foreword had it's written and not it's, effect was written, not affect and french not French. She used the word outlaw in an odd fashion here: "....Josephine and Dusty may have dreamed about in their fantasies of being tough and outlaw." Then now and not know was written and gang related/rule bound/exboyfriend/ need hyphenating.

I will now look up the pictures of the real people to see who's who and watch the film/series. I was saddened to learn of the author's early death and what a shame, too, that the she didn't live to see it, I imagine. A pity we lost a terrific author, too. She did a really tremendous job on this.



Tara Figueiredo

_4.0 out of 5 stars_What a sad story.

Reviewed in Canada on February 19, 2020

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This story is so unbelievably sad and disturbing. As I’m reading it I honestly can’t believe what this poor girl went through at the hands of so many. It really shows how lob mentality works. It’s hard to believe that these are kids aged between 13-17 years old. They’re just babies and they completely ruin their lives in just one night. My heart breaks for Reena Virk and her family. The book itself is well written however I did find that it dragged a bit and had some unnecessary stuff put in.

On a moonlit night in November 1997, 14 year old Reena Virk went to a party with some of her friends near the idyllic waters of Victoria British Columbia. She never returned home. A week later, her body was found by police divers, and eight teenagers, seven of them girls, were arrested.

What follows is a bunch of he said she said and police were forced to go through it all to really find out what happened that night, and who ultimately was responsible.



fragrens

_5.0 out of 5 stars_so well written

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 8, 2024

i knew nothing about this case and decided to not look it up & simply read the book. The writing was in itself quite incredible, mesmerising and almost dreamlike. I actually read it very quickly as i couldnt put it down. The author went into very intense details about the girls and boy involved in this case so you had a sence of who they were prior to the murder. The why this awful crime happened is really left to the reader to understand via the dynamics of the group. i would highly recommend this book.



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