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anacardosolouren's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Animal death, Pedophilia, and Rape
reiley_61's review against another edition
2.5
Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Death
Moderate: Rape, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Homophobia, and Cursing
Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death
sticky_soul_sticky_soles's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Murder, Suicide, Child abuse, Death, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Grief
isaarusilor's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Death, and Murder
Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Child death, and Racial slurs
bcooper21's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Death, Sexual assault, Violence, and Alcohol
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Gore, Racism, Self harm, Grief, Mental illness, Cancer, Rape, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Minor: Sexual content, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Terminal illness, Eating disorder, Vomit, and Car accident
vinacasti's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Violence and Murder
sarasreading's review against another edition
3.25
It's also probably the first book where I've had to write out all the names, because the first third or so of the book throws dozens of people at you, some you never really see again, and some you do. So it's hard to know who is going to be important until the story unfolds.
Also, as you get deeper into the book, it becomes less about the true crime, and morphs into a study of the killers' lives, one in particular. By the end it's obvious that this was done to show that criminal psychology is complex and not as black and white as it was believed back in the 1950s. But the reader doesn't really know that while slogging through the middle of the book, which is bogged down with pages and pages of letters and biopyschosocial history.
Still, glad I read it, and it's probably a must for any true crime lover.
Graphic: Cursing, Murder, Child death, Racial slurs, and Gun violence
Moderate: Pedophilia
lanaaa21's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Murder
emilyhcox's review against another edition
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Rape
herelieshenry's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Racial slurs, Mental illness, Death, Child death, and Murder
Moderate: Pedophilia, Racism, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Misogyny, Suicide, and Violence
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, War, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Homophobia, Abandonment, and Grief