Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

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

3 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.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Murder, Child abuse, Incest, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

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

yalibrarianjen's review

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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