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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
Some of the facts of the book were not well researched and were incorrect. The author also had a tendency to jump back and forth, get names incorrect (from one paragraph to another) and ramble a bit. Overall though, the book was very good and it was nice to see how the show related to real-world experiences.
This was a very informative read and it covered a lot of cases. Well known and lesser known. Great read for a true crime junkie.
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
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This is an authorized tie-in to the popular TV show Criminal Minds and defines the types of criminals that the team profiles against real-life examples. The book is organized by the different types, including solo serial killers, sexual predators, and killers with famous victims.
What I loved...
📚 Criminal Minds is one of my absolute favorite TV shows so finally finding an authorized tie-in was absolutely thrilling for me!! I've also had an ongoing fascination with serial killers and understanding their motivation so any book with reasonable reviews will catch my attention.
What I didn't love...
📚 Using the word tie-in was very generous. The references to the TV show was primarily indicating which episodes certain killers had been mentioned. My initial thought is that the episodes would've been compared against the actions of the real life killers.
📚 The analysis of the real life killers was a bit monotonous... their motivation, their crimes and their ultimate downfall. Reading similar stories repeatedly started to become very repetitive
What I loved...
📚 Criminal Minds is one of my absolute favorite TV shows so finally finding an authorized tie-in was absolutely thrilling for me!! I've also had an ongoing fascination with serial killers and understanding their motivation so any book with reasonable reviews will catch my attention.
What I didn't love...
📚 Using the word tie-in was very generous. The references to the TV show was primarily indicating which episodes certain killers had been mentioned. My initial thought is that the episodes would've been compared against the actions of the real life killers.
📚 The analysis of the real life killers was a bit monotonous... their motivation, their crimes and their ultimate downfall. Reading similar stories repeatedly started to become very repetitive
I picked this book up because Criminal Minds is my favorite show and the idea of learning a little bit more about the serial killers that inspired the episodes from seasons 1-5 was cool to me. This book, while definitely full of information, was a very simplistic look at said killers. All in all, I thought it was a good basic overview of these horrible crimes and I liked how they tied in the particular killers with the episodes.
This is a non-fiction book that closely groups diffrent serial killers into diffrent types of offenders. Then relates these groups they have formed to episodes and killers in the show Criminal Minds. This is a book that will inform you about a wind variety of killers and give you a rough overview of there crimes. And while informative the content of the book for me left me feeling unconfterble and emotionally raw. This looks at the absolute worse of humanity and gives you a fairly detailed but cursory glance at there horrible actions. While informative and insightful I have no ability to rate this book and have no desire to explore this topic deeper.