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2 comments about The Lost Girl: How I Triumphed Over Life at the Mercy of Fred and Rose West.

1. I was interested in this book when I found that Caroline Roberts was a survivor of serial killers Fred and Rose West. There isn't much about the Wests in this book. The book is mainly about Caroline's many sex partners, 4 kids from 3 men, and marriage to a man half her age. She wants the reader to feel sorry for her, but the only one I feel sorry for are her children.
   
   The chapter on what the Wests did to her is horrible. Thank goodness both were punished for what they did. Fortunately Caroline was strong enough to testify against them.
   
   Overall, not a great book, unless you are interested in Caroline's life story.



2. Caroline Roberts is a survivor victim of Rose and Fred West. The Wests were arrested in February 1994 during an investigation into the disappearance of their daughter, Heather. They were accused of murdering 12 people (the tip of the ice-berg?) over a period of over 20 years. The verdicts from the jury followed some of the most shocking evidence ever heard in a British court. The pair had subjected their victims to horrific sexual violence before they were killed, dismembered and buried beneath the Wests' house at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester.
   
   Caroline takes 10 years to write this book, her biography. Her experience with the Wests is quite shocking to say the least, her story is so perplexing that by the time she was reporting the events to the police, she forgets to tell that Fred raped her. In her shocked mind, Fred's rape was the least traumatic event of the whole thing. In fact, it seems that is Rose West who scarred her the most. Another thing that was very shocking and sad, was how she dropped the rape charges for the trial because she didn't had the strength to do it and the police detective was treating her pretty much like a whore. Imagine experiencing one of the most shocking events in your life and then being blamed for that experience, like a piece of crap who deserves the worst. At the end the Wests get away with their behavior and it will take years of years until they are found out for what they are, serial killers. At this point Caroline feels tremendous guilt for every murdered victim that is unburied, after all perhaps she could had stopped them a long time ago if Fred was convicted for her rape.
   
   She was indeed a lost girl and a very wounded one, but her experiences are captivating as she struggles to make sense of her life (I read the book in one day!). We could all learn from her mistakes and story and in order to be better capable of protecting ourselves and the ones we love the most.

5 comments about Fred & Rose: The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors.

1. This book is a classic true crime title. The case is extraordinary: an apparently ordinary and pleasant married couple, Fred and Rose West, molest, torture and murder a series of young women and girls -- including their own daughter -- bury the dismembered remains under their house, in the middle of the city of Gloucester, and continue living happily in said house for many years. The author, Sounes, broke the story as a reporter, and this is the big book on the case, which is very well known in England. Absolutely riveting and a big seller ever since published about ten years ago in the UK, though not so well known in the US. It will make your hair curl (if it doesn't already). A classic of the genre alongside Profession of Violence, Helter Skelter, and Killing for Company.



2. I like this book because it has a family tree, a diagram of the house and useful information regarding location of the bodies. I just started this book and I find the writing to be pretty good. The author stays clear of his personal views until the end of the book. The story is horrifying to believe but reading the backgrounds of this unusual couple helps understand the crimes behind their union. They were unspeakable to say the least to include the murder of their own teenage daughter who wanted to escape. I remember watching a documentary aired on A&E with other surviving children. They knew that this didn't go on in other families and they envied families who had discipline and kept the x-rated stuff to the couples themselves rather than including their own children, strangers, and regularl visitors. The Wests' open sexuality actually probably caused more disturbances to the children who were affected most of all. They weren't loved as they should have been. They were beaten and abused physically, sexually, and emotionally. I wish the West children found solace and comfort now more than ever. They really lived in a a house of horrors beyound our imagination.



3. what a sick family, I have read many true crime books but this is one that will stay with me forever. Not for the faint of heart.
   Good writing on a very sick subject.



4. The book I ordered from this person came right away...no waiting for it at all. I was surprised at how fast I got it. Thanks.
   Liz



5. This was a deep look into the lives of one of the worlds most twisted couples. I wonder how any of their children survived their childhoods.
   If people would have conacted child protective services or reported what they had seen to the police so many lives could have been saved.
   This couple were definantly out of touch with reality and living in some fantasy world full of sadomasochism.