Reviews

Extreme Killers, Volume 4: Tales of the World's Most Prolific Serial Killers by Michael Newton

duderun's review

1.25

First of all, this book was published in 2020, this author should know how to talk about women who engage in sex work. I found some descriptions derogatory and just downright offensive. One point, when discussing Robert Picktin, the author said something along the lines of “all in vain” after mentioning an anti-drug movement aimed at Vancouver. Like, what the hell??? Besides that, the book was informative and I learned things that I didn’t know before about the Green River Killer. I would recommend this book but just go in aware that the author, instead of using the phrase “sex work” used old, offensive language that I do not feel comfortable repeating. Overall, you may learn new things but go in knowing that this author doesn’t write victims as well as possible when discussing sex workers. 

princxporkchop's review

dark sad medium-paced

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Murder, Gun violence, Suicide, Misogyny, Sexism, Rape, Stalking, Child death, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Hate crime, Racism, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Blood, Ableism, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, and Transphobia

pinkloop's review

Boring, too statistical.

mbrown3308's review

dark emotional informative mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

let_therebebooks's review

3.0

3.5 stars ***

The Criminal Minds fanatic in me thoroughly enjoyed this! My only complaint is I wish It had more current serial killers as opposed to the few that were mentioned before the 1900’s.

swmproblems's review

3.0

It wasn't the best book but it didn't suck either. There were parts of the book, even 2-3 pages long, that when you're reading it you feel like you are just reading a graph. I don't know but with so many consecutive numbers, it's impossible for me to fully comprehend what that would look like if they just put it in some kind of graph or even listed the sentences in bullet points or something. At Barnes & Nobles it was in the section with all the different $5 books and it's not like I expected it to be some banger of a book, just filler and I could have been reading something else. It wasn't as bad as this review makes it sound now that I'm wrapping it up.

natsthecats's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Grief, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Torture, Trafficking, and Violence