Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan

32 reviews

sakisreads's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

4.0

This was a Book Club read, because we wanted something that was non-fiction but that was easy to read and not full of jargon 🥲

A dark and thrilling tale, this book needs many content warnings. We see so many serial killer profiles these days and this is one that needs to be looked into (although hopefully not glamourised) 😫

The ending frustrated me to no end though!

I cannot believe Israel committed suicide 😫 I was so frustrated that he got to get away with all of these crimes. At the end, when it asks if racial profiling allowed him to get away with so much, I nodded vigorously.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Sexual assault, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, and Violence

beanodie75's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

alek_n's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Sexual assault, Gore, Blood, Addiction, Murder, Violence, Sexual violence, and Fire/Fire injury

jess_stewart71's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

4.0

Well-written true crime, doesn't glorify the killer and does give attention to the victims as human beings.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Stalking, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Suicide, Sexual assault, Animal death, Child death, Kidnapping, and Murder

librarymouse's review against another edition

challenging dark informative fast-paced

4.0

Unsettling, well researched, and well written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Animal death, Antisemitism, Child death, Confinement, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual violence, Stalking, Torture, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Racism, Violence, Hate crime, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Suicide

Minor: Pregnancy

voilajean's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Violence, Rape, Torture, Alcoholism, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Stalking, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Death, Drug use, Animal cruelty, Child death, Infidelity, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual assault

ahbmacgregor's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

1.75

Starts out strong with the search for the killer, and has a compassionate approach to the victim. Unfortunately, once the killer was found, it becomes slow, with not much concrete information revealed. In the end,

it's hard to tell, based just on the given information, whether Keyes was actually a serial murderer. Considering we don't even have strong evidence in the book of any other murder aside from Samantha Koenig beyond Keyes's confessions, and Keyes was constantly lying, it's hard to take his word for fact.

There's also a considerable amount of reverence for some shady law enforcement interrogation techniques and practices given by the author, which is wild considering how incompetent law enforcement is throughout the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Blood

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Child death

kels24's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Sexual violence, Self harm, Racism, Murder, Rape, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Child death, Child abuse, Animal death, Sexual assault, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Drug use

emilygcotter's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Murder, Rape, Suicide, Death, Child death, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and Pedophilia

hyac1nthgirl's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense fast-paced

4.0

while i fully believe this book to be extremely well written & painstakingly researched, it also solidfied my own personal rule to never read true crime again. this book was as horrifying as it was informative. true crime girlies, i highly recommend! but any average joe reader with a weak stomach... maybe pass.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Rape, Alcoholism, Death, Murder, Self harm, Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, Suicide, Animal death, and Sexual assault