Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

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.

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Content Warnings

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

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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

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

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