Hi friends, happy Monday! I hope you’re all doing well. Today I’m posting my review of Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s memoir, The Fact of a Body.

The Fact of a Body by: Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich: This was not only the author’s memoir, but also a non-fiction story about a murder trial and how the two stories cross paths and intertwine with each other. When Marzano-Lesnvich was beginning her career as a lawyer, the case of Rick Langley was placed before her. From there this opened up a past she had thought was buried, but was very much not, in her personal life. As the trials continued, the more it had her questioning her own beliefs and how the truth can be more complicated than imagined. This book was heavy and dealt with a lot of triggering topics, so be sure to check the trigger warnings before reading this. This book was a back and forth told story of both the author and of Ricky Langley; the more we learned of Ricky, the more we learned of her. At first it was really confusing because the reader couldn’t see the complete parallel that Marzano-Lesnevich was trying to show us. As the book continued, it became clearer, but it took a long time to really see the big picture. There were also a lot of back story to not only her life, but to Ricky’s, like we go back in Ricky’s history to before he was even born to really get the full idea as to where he came from and who he was. This helped with the story, but it always felt like we were going back to something and never forward; it also made it feel like we had so much to keep track of. The writing wasn’t always the best, the short, sometimes abrupt sentence structure left the story reading choppy at times. The reader did appreciate how this story showed how things can come into one’s life and completely change and alter one’s view point on things they thought they knew; that was really well done. This wasn’t this reader’s cup of tea, but for fans of true crime, this might be something worth reading.