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archiedh's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, and Child abuse
ethrbo's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Racial slurs, Pedophilia, and Rape
strange's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Pedophilia, Death, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence
Moderate: Child abuse, Grief, Mental illness, and Rape
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racial slurs, Cancer, Blood, and Addiction
Please, please, please do not push yourself to read this if you in any way feel you’re not readytansybradshaw's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Racial slurs and Pedophilia
magic_frog's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Murder and Child death
Minor: Racism, Pedophilia, and Rape
em09's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, and Violence
Moderate: Pedophilia
Minor: Animal death
rachel_green's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Child death, Murder, and Pedophilia
Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault
erindatema25's review against another edition
Moderate: Gun violence, Murder, Pedophilia, and Violence
athereaderofbooks's review against another edition
2.0
I will give kudos to a couple of aspects of this book:
1. It was organized in a notable way. It started with showing the past of both the victims and their killers. Their environments were taken into consideration and you developed an idea of their character. Later it led to the investigation and we found out how the murder occurred through confessionals. Truman Capote followed the case until its conclusion.
But despite these factors, I hated this book. This is the first time that I have read a true crime book, and this most definitely affected my rating, but this was horrific. Why would I want to read about an entire family being murdered
On top of this, there have been multiple people who have contested the accuracy of this book, saying that there were many pieces of opinion inserted and falsehoods added into the book. (Not just random people online, but people who themselves have analyzed this crime.)
This dragged on and on with a really excessive form of writing and the only interest I had was finishing this book so I could get it over with, understand what happened, and try to forget it.
And to me, most importantly, there were multiple instances where racial, homophobic, and in general degrading slurs were used. This includes but is not limited to the n-word, the f slur, and out-of-date referrals to Asian, Black, and Native American people.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, and Violence
Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Car accident, Death of parent, Hate crime, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Abandonment, Bullying, Excrement, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and War
cherryredmarlene's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Violence, Ableism, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship