2.5
Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer
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2.5
“I have very mixed feelings about this book.
Having finished it, I regard it as a very interesting story that was not told in the best way. I say this because I enjoy the story thinking back on it as a whole and knowing everything that I now know having finished the book. However, while I was reading the first 3/4 of the book I really struggled to understand why I should care about anything that was happened or anyone that it was happening to.
I liked Jessold at first, but he quickly became irritating and I struggled to understand why Shepherd continued to subject himself to Jessold's presence. And while Shepherd himself was not unlikeable, I also struggled to find reasons to really like him either. He was kind of a blank character for me, just there to tell the story of another man.
Then I got to the last quarter of the book where we get kind of a record scratch moment in which Shepherd realizes that he needs to tell the truth about everything that happened with Jessold and tells the full story.
To the book's credit, it did not take back everything that it had said previously and tell a completely different story. That shit makes me angry. It simply gave details about previous events that had been left out in the first half of the book and thus creates a much richer story and explains the connection between Shepherd and Jessold, and also explains why Shepherd is still so focused on Jessold's life and death even after the man has been gone for so many years. I enjoyed this reexamination of events immensely, but it was still not enough to "save" the majority of the book for me.
I can't say that I know how the story could have been told better, how it might have kept me more engaged for the first 75% or made the characters more likeable or interesting. Unfortunately, I think this just wasn't the book for me, even though I enjoyed the last 25%.”
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