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hikio123's review against another edition
dark
fast-paced
0.25
This book is not what's promised. The blurb would make you think that it would have a mix of true crime and paranormal sighting, not a constant barrage of half assed arguments about how this and that spiritualist actually solved a murder, but actually got it really wrong or could be easily explained another way. This book would be fine, even kind of entertaining, if it wasn't taking real life cases of people actually getting brutally murder to advance some propaganda that mediums and clarivoyance is legit (despite so many researches and attempts to prove it failing, or even within the same book, clear cases of people just straight up getting it wrong but still being held as great).
This book is an insult to the memory and history of real people that died brutally from the hands of horrible people, and this pile of trash should be burned.
The writing itself was mediocre at best. It was verbose without any reason, and could not keep a story on a straight and clear path to make their point. it is bloated with information about mediums that are so pointless to what was advertised from the book. Its a waste of time and would be better used to have the names of true crimes and finding people with actual respect for the dead to share the details of the case, instead of trying to sell mediums as legit part of investigations.
This book is an insult to the memory and history of real people that died brutally from the hands of horrible people, and this pile of trash should be burned.
The writing itself was mediocre at best. It was verbose without any reason, and could not keep a story on a straight and clear path to make their point. it is bloated with information about mediums that are so pointless to what was advertised from the book. Its a waste of time and would be better used to have the names of true crimes and finding people with actual respect for the dead to share the details of the case, instead of trying to sell mediums as legit part of investigations.
lucatiel's review against another edition
3.0
I found the book interesting but long-winded. The stories included were long and drawn out and this took away from the actual paranormal portions of the story. It was a decent read and I would recommend it to people interested in the paranormal rather than those interested in true crime.
mystereity's review against another edition
2.0
Just...ok. Interesting stories, but became long winded and tired by the end. Could've done with more of the early stories. Overall, not a bad read but not the hair-raiser I was hoping for.
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