Cruel Sacrifice
by Pinnacle

	Cruel Sacrifice
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Book Description

The words of a murderer: "This should not have happened. This is not me. It's so stupid when you think about it. It shouldn't have caused a death. I don't blame me. We just need a little growing up. We were young, and we still are." Aphrodite Jones takes the reader into the world of several teenage girls in small-town southern Indiana--their clothes, rock music, and fascination with offbeat spirituality, and also their lesbian jealousies and penchant for violence. This book provides a useful balance to an earlier account by Michael Quinlan (<i>Little Lost Angel</i>). Jones's style is less dramatic than Quinlan's, but she devotes more space to the family backgrounds and psychological complexities of the two girls whose hot-vs-cold temperaments meshed to bring about the murder of 12-year-old Shanda Sharer.

Reader Reviews

I must say that Aphrodite Jones did an amazing job covering this horrid story. Shanda Sharer was a 12yr. old girl who had been kidnapped and bludgeoned to death by four teenage girls. Some parts of this book are very graphic and at times I felt sick to my stomach. What happened to Shanda Sharer should not have happened, but hopefully, every parent who reads this novel will pay attention to the "warning signs" their children exhibit. Had the parents of these four girls payed attention, this sensless tragedy could have been avoided.