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Picture Perfect

the Jodi Arias Story : a Beautiful Photographer, Her Mormon Lover, and a Brutal Murder
Jul 28, 2016Janice21383 rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
What happens when a liar and fantasist meets a worse one. This could be an interesting story about religion and the self-help culture, but the author did the rock bottom minimum of research to turn out a book while public interest was still high. For example, the first quarter of the book is devoted to establishing what a saint Travis Alexander was, when the entire story was taken from Alexander himself and his family supporters, and is highly unlikely and self-serving. What, not even one Mormon would come forward to criticize his use of ward contacts to sell his "legal insurance" pyramid scheme? Jodi Arias is somewhat more realistically depicted, but she was not a photographer, but a dull, mentally empty waitress, who clung onto men to give herself an identity. As these two use and torment one another, it's hard to decide who is dimmer: Alexander, Arias, or Hogan, who covers the relationship in lifeless, repetitive detail.