Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer

20 reviews

rcsreads's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

2.5

There's a lot of speculation in this. In the case of Alice Kyteler in particular there's no proof she ever killed anyone. Several of the women didn't work alone but Telfer attributes all the murders to them when, again, there's no proof.
 For several of the murdresses I can just Google female serial killers and get more information than Telfer provides and frequently better writing. There's nothing on the Benders that I can't learn from Wikipedia and it has more detail and less of an obsession with how attractive Kate was.
 If you want an in depth look at which murdresses were the prettiest then this is the book for you. If you want actual facts then there are plenty of online articles and probably many better written books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Incest, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

epeolatri's review against another edition

medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Death, Violence, Child death, and Sexism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, and Classism

Minor: Sexual content, Torture, Excrement, Rape, Suicide, Infidelity, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Grief, and Incest

nadia's review against another edition

dark informative fast-paced

4.0

What a wild, worldwide tour this was! A super entertaining, informative, varied, and shocking overview of a group of lady serial killers throughout history. And we're really talking about 'throughout' here, as we went from the 14th century to more recent times. I also enjoyed getting a glimpse into criminal proceedings from all these different times and places.

The narrative voice Tori Telfer employed was engaging and also injected some humour, but sometimes the occasional levity of it did make me take pause and be like: wait, this really happened? It was almost narrated too 'plainly' at times, if that makes any sense...

This isn't to say that Tori wasn't taking the stories seriously or disrespecting the victims. Far from it. In fact, I really appreciated the discussion around the perceptions and double standards surrounding criminals who are women.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Death, and Gore

mags_reads_'s review

funny informative mysterious medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Physical abuse, and Violence

mermaidsherbet's review

dark funny fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Violence

yeojinqueen's review

adventurous dark informative slow-paced

4.25

Wish there had been more variety it was mostly poisonings with arsenic so some of the stories faded away in my head 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pregnancy, Torture, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

biacedbooks's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

3.5

Glad that this book didn't perpetuate the glorification of serial killers and did act like these women were girlbosses when for real they were murderers

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Murder, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content

jillterry22's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

3.75

Listened on audiobook. The audiobook read like a podcast, and I enjoyed the storytelling and format! My biggest gap with the book was lack of potential psychological analysis or any more recent stories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Murder, Rape, Child abuse, Violence, Sexual assault, and Physical abuse

limwenelensar's review

dark informative medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

amna_a's review against another edition

dark informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit