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Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe
23 reviews
msmse's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.5
I really loved this book overall. Monroe did a great job providing a riveting, well-rounded description of the obsessions of these women, their motives, and the overall anxieties of society that were at play. It was hard to put the book down! My only negative feedback was that it broached a lot of topics at the expense of depth. Maybe that was part of the point, though - that women’s interest in crime is as complex and complicated as the cases they follow or experience more directly.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Violence, and Gun violence
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Rape
amandaquotidianbooks's review
dark
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
I really enjoyed how this was organized into four mini-biographies on true crime adjacent women. The autobiographical elements worked well to process themes and questions.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Death, Murder, Violence, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexual assault, Mass/school shootings, and Gun violence
kimdalia's review against another edition
dark
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Death
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