Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James, Rachel McCarthy James

6 reviews

librarymouse's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

3.0

This book is very dense and the organization makes the information and names harder to follow across chapters and years. Still, it's interesting to get a glimpse into the author's research processes and they make a good case for the man they believe to be the killer and what they believe to be his fate.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Sexual content, Racial slurs, Child death, Sexual assault, Body horror, Murder, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Mental illness, Stalking, Classism, Hate crime, Blood, Gore, Grief, Child abuse, Death, and Gun violence

Minor: Drug use, Domestic abuse, War, Alcohol, and Animal cruelty

juliana18's review

dark emotional funny informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Racism, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Stalking, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Ableism, and Police brutality

bibrarian_'s review

dark informative slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Child abuse, Child death, Racism, and Pedophilia

msradiosilence's review against another edition

dark funny informative mysterious sad slow-paced

1.5

Tldr; the “good” of this book (the authors playing to their strengths, etc) did very little to outweigh the bad (the authors being blind to their own weaknesses, and being racist, etc.) 

Read my full review at: https://www.rainyreader.com/single-post/the-man-from-the-train

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Stalking, Body horror, Gore, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pedophilia, and Racism

aconfundityofcrows's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious tense slow-paced

5.0

Woah so fascinating and they figured it out too. Now we just need a German speaker to sift through old newspaper records to figure out if he committed any more in Germany or Austria.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Racism, and Murder

Moderate: Body shaming, Pedophilia, Xenophobia, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Stalking, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Hate crime, Cursing, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Physical abuse, Infidelity, Incest, Domestic abuse, Chronic illness, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

smithy361's review against another edition

dark informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Infidelity