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Absent from the nearly 300 pages of the cold description of the crimes is the impact on the families that lost their little girls to such brutal rapes and murders; many are lost to no one as they are never even identified. What could be more sad than being murdered and no one even misses you--the file is shortly closed on your life, which has no past, present or future. As Elie Wiesel said in his speech at the Seventh White House Millennium Evening on April 12, 1999, "to be indifferent to that suffering is what makes the human being inhuman.

" Those characters in the novel who try to make a difference are chastised for it, as when Lalo Cura tries to actually investigate the murders and is told to never do it again. Isn't that why the the final chapter harkens back to World War II? To remind the reader of Hitler, one of histories personifications of evil and the worlds indifference to what was going on in the death camps? There is no character that maintains an interest in stopping the deaths of the women and girls--even those that have an initial fascination, such as the journalist, soon move on with their lives without being deeply touched by the tragedies.

None of that, however, makes it the best novel I have ever read. It is gruesome and unsatisfying, but not so profound as to move me to want to change the world. That would have made it a great novel and masterpiece.

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