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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
There is not one mention of My Favorite Murder in Rachel Monroe’s analysis of women’s obsession with true crime. But its ghost (“Why, there hasn’t been a ghost around here in twenty-five years!”), for me, haunts every page.
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challenging
dark
informative
sad
medium-paced
Though I almost gave up on this book, I ended up loving it. Savage Appetites is somewhat complicated to categorize as it's more than a recounting of the crimes. Its cover does it a bit of disservice as the book takes a more serious look at our (women's in particular) relationships to gruesome crime than the art would lead you to believe. I love the author's 360 view of these crimes and the way we interact with them.
I really enjoyed this! The stories are interesting and complex and Monroe does a good job of laying them out for the reader.
Not too much information to get lost in or bogged down by. This was like the goldilocks of true crime for me.
Not too much information to get lost in or bogged down by. This was like the goldilocks of true crime for me.
Fantastic book! I really appreciated the inclusivity and thoughtfulness of this book, particularly around victimology and who is innocent.
Interesting — she got good detail into the people she reported on.
I really liked the idea of using four cases (the detective, the victim, the defender, the killer) to explore our obsession with true crime. The last one gave me the creeps!
this was nothing like i expected, which is a good thing. there are four stories here. the first three are interesting, bizarre, and macabre in that order. i wish i hadn't read the fourth. it was downright morbid and sickening.
3.75 rounded up. It wasn’t what I expected, but still an interesting read!