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2.5 AVERAGE
2.5 AVERAGE
dark
informative
slow-paced
Picture of Myra Hindley on the front cover but doesn’t cover her killings
challenging
slow-paced
I'm not usually one for reviews. I'm especially not one for mean reviews. but this book deserves it. I thought I was judging it unfairly at first, so I persevered. I'm not sure I should have bothered.
This book had many, many issues:
1. The shameless self-promotion (we get it dude, you have many books on this topic. Trust me, I will not be reading them).
2. The combination of misogynistic and misanthropic opinions (dude literally spent the introduction proudly claiming that, as a man, he was unable to comprehend the female mind. It was a very clumsy argument).
3. This book constantly (and bizarrely) strayed from an insight into the lives of serial killers to random thoughts and opinions of the author- completely interrupting the flow of the book and leaving me blinking in confusion at the sudden jumps on the narrative.
4. I really don't believe there was an editor for this piece of work- the book's structure was wild and clunky and the typos had me re-reading sentences constantly.
Furthermore, the author was simultaneously unfamiliar and overly familiar with commas. finally, the excessive use of exclamation points were exhausting.
in the end, enduring this book felt like proof-reading an essay crafted at midnight by an exhausted student on a two hour deadline.
5. Despite tooting itself as an insight into the serial killer mind, I saw more insight into the psychology of the author.
Dude seemed to have an odd obsession with people's sexual orientation and appearance, constantly introducing an individual by their sexuality and physical features. It frankly came across as sleazy, degrading and unnecessary.
The only positive I can say for this book is that it cost me £1 from a charity shop.
This book had many, many issues:
1. The shameless self-promotion (we get it dude, you have many books on this topic. Trust me, I will not be reading them).
2. The combination of misogynistic and misanthropic opinions (dude literally spent the introduction proudly claiming that, as a man, he was unable to comprehend the female mind. It was a very clumsy argument).
3. This book constantly (and bizarrely) strayed from an insight into the lives of serial killers to random thoughts and opinions of the author- completely interrupting the flow of the book and leaving me blinking in confusion at the sudden jumps on the narrative.
4. I really don't believe there was an editor for this piece of work- the book's structure was wild and clunky and the typos had me re-reading sentences constantly.
Furthermore, the author was simultaneously unfamiliar and overly familiar with commas. finally, the excessive use of exclamation points were exhausting.
in the end, enduring this book felt like proof-reading an essay crafted at midnight by an exhausted student on a two hour deadline.
5. Despite tooting itself as an insight into the serial killer mind, I saw more insight into the psychology of the author.
Dude seemed to have an odd obsession with people's sexual orientation and appearance, constantly introducing an individual by their sexuality and physical features. It frankly came across as sleazy, degrading and unnecessary.
The only positive I can say for this book is that it cost me £1 from a charity shop.
challenging
dark
informative
medium-paced
dark
informative
fast-paced
Really enjoyed this, and could tell it was written by someone who knew what they were talking about. It was interesting, insightful but without being complicates. The only thing is that the author spent time defining a serial killer, and then most of the cases covered, weren't serial killers. He even listed loads of serial killers at the beginning, but they weren't mentioned in the book. Someone who killed 1 person, and maybe a 2nd, isn't a serial killer, and yet they're in the book. More actual serial killers would have been better. It was still interesting though.
Badly written and not really about the female killers. Very much all 'me, me, me' from the author
dark
informative
This book is repetitive, poorly structured and written in a way that seems to make light of the horrific crimes it details. It uses language in relation to intelligence that is offensive and is often misogynistic. In diction to this, the author only seems to have two points of reference, murders are either like a Hitchcock film or a Steven King novel which after the third or fourth mention are very tedious.
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced