Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll BOOK Review

This story…oh SO good!!

It’s a story that’s well known, well let me backtrack – the defendant is well known. The hottie Zac Efron made him more famous in a series several years back. The stories of the women – not so well known. How embarrassing is it that as a society we’ve been so focused on the killer and not on the women whose lives were affected.

While this book is “fiction”, it is based on the lives of one of the girls in the sorority at FSU and another of his victims. It goes back and forth in time periods and it is engrossing. It’s interesting and it tells the tale of female empowerment, Ted Bundy thought he took that from all of his victims but, he did not. It begins with the attack in the sorority house and goes to the year 2021.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, I enjoyed the telling and importance of showing that despite the innocent lives he took, they will be remembered by saying THEIR names and NOT his. In fact, his name was never mentioned and I applaud Jessica for that. This book exceeded my expectations and I’m giving it five stars for that.