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Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer by Jillian Lauren
4 reviews
caseyundercovers's review
I've never DNFed a book before, but this one broke me.
As a book about a sexualy violent serial killer, I was prepared for a lot of violence, gore, and vulgarity. However, this book took it to an entirely new level of disgusting. The author takes it upon herself to dramatize the murders and presumes to narrate what the victims were thinking and feeling as they died, some of which was so disrespectful that I was outright angry and disgusted to have even read it. And don't even get me started on dick cheese.
As a book about a sexualy violent serial killer, I was prepared for a lot of violence, gore, and vulgarity. However, this book took it to an entirely new level of disgusting. The author takes it upon herself to dramatize the murders and presumes to narrate what the victims were thinking and feeling as they died, some of which was so disrespectful that I was outright angry and disgusted to have even read it. And don't even get me started on dick cheese.
Graphic: Violence, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Murder, Child abuse, Incest, Sexual content, and Sexual violence
yalibrarianjen's review
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
slow-paced
4.75
Graphic: Medical content, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Murder, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Torture, Kidnapping, Mental illness, and Physical abuse
hownoveljo's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Racial slurs and Child abuse
ambeda's review against another edition
challenging
dark
medium-paced
3.5
I knew what I was getting into when I picked up an audio book about Sam Little, but what I didn't appreciate was the recreations of some of the victims' deaths. I want to know about them, and I want their names and lives to be remembered. This wasn't the way to do it, in my opinion. Maybe the flow didn't quite feel right, as I listened to the audio book, and we jumped between past and present often. Not to say I didn't appreciate all of the work Jillian Lauren put into this book, I do! No regrets that I finished it, and if I worked on this project, I'd be proud of putting this out there.
Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Child abuse, and Rape
Moderate: Drug abuse
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