Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer by Jillian Lauren

6 reviews

alexisgarcia's review

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

2.5

i think this book wasn’t executed quite right. i don’t totally agree with adding a bunch of details about the actual crimes when there was no actual evidence of them happening. while it has the ability to make the story more compelling and “atmospheric”, it always feels a little disrespectful and fake. idk. and the way the information is presented is super disjointed and confusing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Violence, Blood, Rape, Body horror, Death, Gore, Murder, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail

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.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Child abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Drug abuse

apersonfromflorida's review

dark informative sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Minor: Domestic abuse

lizzy52's review

dark medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Murder

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

I don’t really know what to say. The author did an extraordinary thing - got a serial killer to confess to 90+ murder after only originally having been convicted of three. Definitely makes me wonder the effectiveness of our law enforcement agencies. The amount of detail she has to research and notate, the ethical decisions she had to apply throughout the investigation, and the retold narratives she constructed to give voices to the dead - pretty darned remarkable. But it’s hard for me to say that I’m grateful to have read this book. I learned a lot, but do I really need to know this much about a serial killer? Hopefully not!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Murder

willa_reads_books's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

i think that this book was really well written. due to the victims and how recent all of these things were discovered, i have not seen much press on these cases and this killer. this is a comprehensive look into his crimes, his victims, and his trial. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Murder, Racism, Blood, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Death of parent, Drug use, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, and Drug abuse