Angel Face: Sex, Murder and the Inside Story of Amanda Knox

Let's just say, I expected more. Majority of the book covered media speculation and quarells between media outlets than it did the details of the case. I would have liked to hear less about the awful things people said about Barbie Latza Nadeau, and more about Amanda Knox. It's just that for a book with the subtitle “The Real Story,” it seemed like it would've been more about the person you are writing about than how people viewed you while covering the trial. Quite frankly, I don't care that people called you “a failed travel writer.” I want to know about Amanda Knox and her trial and even a little about her so called accomplices' history. Maybe even a little about her childhood and her life before coming to Perugia.

I just went in expecting so much more when it in the foreword it said, “...she attended almost every session of Knox's murder trial, read the entire ten-thousand-page legal dossier in Italian...” I was just like oh fuck yeah she has to know a whole lot and such be able to get through some of the language barrier. Like hell. Whatever was in the ten-thousand-page legal dossier must of left her mind after a few chapters. And speaking of chapters, the chapter titles were just plain distasteful.

I gave the book 2 stars because it seems very promising until we get to part where Amanda and Raffaele were arrested. After that I felt like I could have just read Nadeau's coverage articles and got about the same amount of information.

For about a week, my sister and I became re-obsessed with the Amanda Knox trial. I checked this book out of the library not really intending to read the whole thing. When I first started reading it, I could barely put it down. There's something so compelling about the case that I can't help but study everything I can on it. I am also intrigued by the fact that nobody knows for sure what happened (except maybe the murderer(s), but even he/she/they probably only remember the night through a drugged up haze). This book offered the most realistic and logical account I have seen on what probably happened that night. If you are at all interested in this case, you might want to check out this book.