Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

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

37 reviews

madisonjordan5693's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, Child death, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Animal death, Religious bigotry, and Animal cruelty

trysarahtops's review against another edition

dark informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

adri_ba_dadri14's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Suicide, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, and Murder

kbennettj's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Suicide, Death, Gun violence, Stalking, Child death, Violence, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Murder, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, Animal death, Confinement, Torture, Rape, and Sexual violence

lauren_drinkard's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Torture, Kidnapping, and Animal death

byo_books's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Death, Animal cruelty, Murder, Rape, Suicide, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Gun violence, and Animal death

katreadsalots's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, Rape, Murder, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Death, Confinement, and Violence

chloeve's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Self harm, Gun violence, Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Violence, Torture, Rape, Child death, Blood, Animal death, Suicide, and Death

suneaters's review against another edition

dark informative tense fast-paced

4.25

Well his dumbass wasn’t that smart considering he confessed for nothing. I’ve seen teenagers hold out longer with actual interrogators and detectives. 

In all seriousness, this was a well-written book that took lengthy documents and transcripts and created a narrative story out of them without embellishment. I had heard of Israel Keyes before, but only in the context of the Koenig case, the 12 victims drawing, and his suicide. His confession about the Courrier couple was terrifying, as was how he left no trace and operated on insanely tight time tables. He killed a girl in his own damn backyard! 

A true sadist even from an early age, Keyes seems to have been born without empathy. Or, perhaps, selective empathy since he took good care of his sisters and his daughter, reportedly. It was deeply intriguing to learn about his childhood and army days as it was infuriating to hear how mishandled his case and stay at the Anchorage Correctional Cenger was. Kevin Feldis you fucking idiot. Man, that felt good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

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