It's pretty impossible to imagine what it's like to one day be standing in your home in your pajamas, open the door to an FBI agent and learn your dad is a prolific serial killer. But that's Kerri Rawson's story. In this memoir, Rawson walks you through the two sections of her life: before and after finding out her dad was BTK.
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I listened on audio and was touched by how gracefully Kerri handled not only relating her story, but how she handled finding out what her dad had done. She pressed into her relationship with God and let her faith be a pillar of her healing. She also openly discusses her mental health and the various healthy and unhealthy ways she sought help.
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If you are interested in true crime stories, memoirs, and/or faith accounts, you will enjoy this book.

A brave effort to tell the BTK story from an often overlooked perspective. For those seeking insights into BTK’s background and possible motivations, this book offers no answers. It exposes the simple fact that killers can come from all walks of life, with no prerequisites to point them out. The ordinariness of the Rader family makes the BTK killings all the more shocking. The heavy focus on religion is a little off putting for me as a reader, but I understand this was key to the author coming to terms with her father’s crimes and what this meant for herself and her family.

BTK is one of the serial killers that I have heard a lot about. This book gave a unique inside since it was written by his daughter. I found it very interesting and hard to put down.

Serial killers' relatives are also called "secondary victims" as I can't imagine what is the choc of discovering that someone near you was ruthless killer
This is a personal memoir about BTK's daughter and not about BTK. I read that in a review that we are not able to understand why he became a killer.
Got a news for you if you are expecting to reading about the killings or the mind of a serial killer: nobody know why they became what they are and there's plenty of true crime.
It's moving, it's very personal. It's also a book on how to surive
Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine

Very interesting and insightful read! It gave a great outlook on what people's families go through. It's something that I think most people don't give a lot of thought to.

I think this was interesting as it’s easy to forget about the family of the killer and they’re often unfairly tarred with the same brush. It is also eye opening to read and have examples of how someone could parent ‘normally’ but at the same time equally torture people!

What would you do if someone you loved, someone you thought you knew, turned out to be a serial killer? This book was slow at times and contained a lot of Biblical references, but it was still an informative and emotional read.

“My dad was raising children, yet he chose to take another mother away from her children. He was about to have a daughter yet took two more daughters away from their families.”

“But he was still my father, and I loved him—no matter what he had done.”

This book is such a good read but hard to read at the same time. No one thinks their family member who they love is capable of such horror. It also shows us how these monsters can have 2 sides and blend into to society better then we think. This is great for any true crime fan

This book made me think about the strength of family ties. I found it meaningful to learn about their history, how Kerri and her family coped with the challenges they faced, and everything they went through and experienced after Dennis was arrested.

Yeah this was hard to read. I feel sorry for Kerri. It is interesting to read about the home life of a serial killer. It’s pretty eye opening. Thank you for granting me access to this arc. Overall I enjoyed it.