PositiveThe Guardian (UK)The book spends much of its time telling the backstories of the victims, putting them at the center of the story rather than the killer ... In the epilogue to his book, Green says that, as a straight man, he had to ponder whether this was his story to tell. Eventually, he concluded that \'when you’re talking about the history of queer people in America, or black people in America, you’re talking about the history of America. I think it’s a wonderful challenge to situate these stories in the larger history,\' he said.