A review by rwallauer
Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation by Erika Krouse

3.0

This book took me a while to read because the content was pretty heavy. I had to take a lot of breaks to process what I was reading. It’s definitely a lot different than books that I am used to. It follows a real investigation through a civil case against football players at a university and the culture of sexual violence that was encouraged and deliberately allowed by the University staff. The book can be hard to read at times not only because of the contents but because the author writes like an investigator. It’s a lot of facts and when she tries to put emotion into the book it feels often very stunted and unemotional. The irony of that is her own story of abuse that is folded in to the book and how clinically she approaches it. That being said she’s obviously incredibly intelligent and insightful and I learned a lot by reading this book. I can’t say that it would be a book that I would recommend just because it was so hard to read but it definitely made me more of a champion for women’s rights and opened my eyes to systemic problems that I had been previously blind to.