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2.5 AVERAGE
2.5 AVERAGE
challenging
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Honestly I wasn't sure i was going to finish this book but not why you'd think. The tone the author was using didn't always sit well with me. I found it sometimes very judgemental and borderline injurious with some of these women, yes they are serial killers, some even more monstruous than others but still. The man judging a woman's wrong is not a trope (well sociatal schéma even) that I tolerate.
The content of the book was sometimes hard to read in it's brutal graphicness but mostly interesting and morbidly fascinating.
The author's guideline through the book was the following question : "Are women as dangerous as men ?" Which honestly...Why ? This shallow question is only partially and superficially answered by a yes in the end. What of the over-abundance of male serial killer ? Why are women so underrepresented ? Why do women rarely combine sex with their murders ? What about differences of motives between genders ? And differences of weapons ? And techniques ?
Anyway, this book could have been a way deeper and more complex analysis. But overall interesting and very well documented.
The content of the book was sometimes hard to read in it's brutal graphicness but mostly interesting and morbidly fascinating.
The author's guideline through the book was the following question : "Are women as dangerous as men ?" Which honestly...Why ? This shallow question is only partially and superficially answered by a yes in the end. What of the over-abundance of male serial killer ? Why are women so underrepresented ? Why do women rarely combine sex with their murders ? What about differences of motives between genders ? And differences of weapons ? And techniques ?
Anyway, this book could have been a way deeper and more complex analysis. But overall interesting and very well documented.
not as interesting as it was made out to be. Thought all the reviews were harsh on the author but they were right! talks about himself a lot :/
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Couldn’t bear the authorial voice, as they comment on the attractiveness of every woman they reference and reduce them to stereotypes.
Complete lack of depth to their discussions behind women’s motives and included a random chapter where he explained that all of their victims had the same thing in common - they were dead. Groundbreaking!
Complete lack of depth to their discussions behind women’s motives and included a random chapter where he explained that all of their victims had the same thing in common - they were dead. Groundbreaking!
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challenging
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informative
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When I started to read this I was intrigued and the opening in the Russian women's prison was captivating, but as the book went on it just became so boring, nonsensical and pompous.
Christopher has a very irritating 'holier-than-thou' narrative voice that's extremely grating, and instead of speaking about some of the worst women in history (like Myra Hyndley), he instead dedicates dull chapters to women who kill their husbands for money, and don't even qualify as serial killers. Sprinkled among this are sexist descriptions of women's appearances (and he always mentions if they're anything but white for some reason?), which are a real treat. It's just a compilation of boring and sexist wikipedia inserts of some random crimes connected only by the perpetrator being a woman.
Christopher has a very irritating 'holier-than-thou' narrative voice that's extremely grating, and instead of speaking about some of the worst women in history (like Myra Hyndley), he instead dedicates dull chapters to women who kill their husbands for money, and don't even qualify as serial killers. Sprinkled among this are sexist descriptions of women's appearances (and he always mentions if they're anything but white for some reason?), which are a real treat. It's just a compilation of boring and sexist wikipedia inserts of some random crimes connected only by the perpetrator being a woman.
If you want to read about female serial killers, pick up literally any other book.
I learned about some female murderers, that's the only positive thing I can say about it.
The style of writing is bad, and the author gives way too many of his own opinions and remarks for a supposed professional criminologist. The structure of the paragraphs also do not make sense. "But I have digressed." is a sentence that is used a lot. You've digressed way too much, Chris.
Add to that the amount of times he's mentioned his own other books, the remarks about the women's looks, the lack of psychological research into these women, and the book being just so badly written, and it adds up to a barely 1-star book.
I learned about some female murderers, that's the only positive thing I can say about it.
The style of writing is bad, and the author gives way too many of his own opinions and remarks for a supposed professional criminologist. The structure of the paragraphs also do not make sense. "But I have digressed." is a sentence that is used a lot. You've digressed way too much, Chris.
Add to that the amount of times he's mentioned his own other books, the remarks about the women's looks, the lack of psychological research into these women, and the book being just so badly written, and it adds up to a barely 1-star book.
Absolutely no effort was made to edit the mistakes out of the book, most pages have at least one.
This book just felt like a way for the author to promote his other works without having to put any effort in.
Wouldn't recommend at all.
This book just felt like a way for the author to promote his other works without having to put any effort in.
Wouldn't recommend at all.
challenging
dark
informative
medium-paced