Reviews tagging 'Blood'

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

4 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

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

katrinaburch's review

dark sad slow-paced

1.75

I won this book through Goodreads Giveaways.

I wanted to like it! But man it just drags so hard. I understand the author is trying to give a voice to the victims but it's almost like two competing stories here and one of them is a crime fiction novel and the other is the true crime story. And it just did not work. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Death

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