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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
As someone who's heavily interested in the true crime scheme, this book is a great read if you're looking for something quick and easy. There were a few names of killers' that were discussed about that I already knew about, and some that I've never heard of! However, I will have to put into the air that it felt like I was reading the same chapter over and over again. To the extend that we know about female serial killers is that they're known to use poison as their weapon of choice. That I understand. But, it could have been broke up better instead of including poisoner after poisoner after poisoner. This could help by also providing more well-known female killers like the infamous Bonnie Parker of the Barrow Gang or Aileen Wuornos, who's mentioned several times through the book already. A
Again, not a horrible read, but I know plenty of other readers' feel the same that I do about the pacing, who was included, and their method of choice. Honestly, I did read this to help me fall asleep at night so take it with a pinch of salt!
Again, not a horrible read, but I know plenty of other readers' feel the same that I do about the pacing, who was included, and their method of choice. Honestly, I did read this to help me fall asleep at night so take it with a pinch of salt!
dark
informative
medium-paced
dark
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Torture, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
" there are no female serial killers. "
This book has a morbid sense of humor, which I found made the book easier to read. Some of the things these women did were just terrible, that sense of witty humor makes things seem less dark and often we need that. I can understand why people didn't like that in this novel, but I found it was needed.
I read this one quickly, as it kept me busy during me kept indoors during a horribly stormy weekend, it was quick, witty, and sharp as a claw. I've read and done a lot of learning about these terrible things of history and it is very rare to see anything about these female killers. Or if you do, it's always the same thing, "It was for love!" or anything like that.
This book reminds you that these women were terrible, almost monsters with a bloodlust and they were greedy. Telfer does that stunningly well. I love the way this novel is written and I can only hope the rest of her work is just as chilling.
I might pick it up later. Had to return to the library. It's hard to read all the killing back to back. Many, many, many breaks are needed.
dark
informative
fast-paced
Interesting cases chosen. I feel like the author put time into deciding which to talk about and actually talked about why they the cases where picked, rather than just grabbing cases and glueing them together.
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fast-paced
An intriguing and fascinating read on the subject of “Lady Killers” and how, though people say female serial killers are rare that actually there were a few spread throughout history, it’s just because of how culturally and society view women it’s either through shock, a sense of almost dark seductive feminine wiles or even as just witches…. This book dives into these perceived images and asks us that we need to look at them differently to what we have always thought was the case and just see them for what they were… women who killed out wanting more, revenge or just wanting to lash out because they could.
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informative
sad
fast-paced
oh man this writing is really poor - you can tell she wasn’t a historian, she reported things that seemed like legends/anecdotes as completely factual. also trying too hard to be light and funny. you don’t really get any actual insight into any of the women she talks about, or the historical contexts for each of them