jordan_p16's review against another edition

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3.0

3.5 rounded down. Not a huge fan of the narrator, but interesting enough story!

djohan's review against another edition

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dark informative sad medium-paced

3.5

miwqua's review

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dark informative medium-paced

4.0

readbyashleyd's review

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dark informative slow-paced

5.0

This is without a single doubt, the most disturbing and traumatizing true crime book I’ve read in a long time. Word of warning, this book is not for the faint of heart, it is brutal and graphic and there are A LOT of potential triggers throughout. It feels weird giving such a book 5 stars because I wouldn’t really say I enjoyed it in the typical sense you normally enjoy a book. My skin was crawling the whole way through and I often had to pause to collect myself while reading it because I was just so disturbed and horrified by what I was reading. The depravity that humans can inflict on each other is truly terrifying, to think that that can happen just chills me to the bone. This book managed to evoke more emotion than me than any book has in a long time and to actually make me feel physically ill, I have never been more horrified by anything I’ve read.

booksandcourt's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.75

stormlightreader's review

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informative fast-paced

3.5

Positives: 
- pictures throughout the book rather than a collection of pictures in the middle 
- short summary after some victims stating  how the spouse or family were impacted down the line 
- the info on Dennis Rader (BTK) was good, like Anne Rule's Green River, Running Red, it wasn't unnecessarily detailed and built a clear picture of the crimes and the length of time it took the police to apprehend him

Negatives: 
- There was a bunch of pages (approx. 143-179) on the personal lives/impact BTK was having on the detectives (fine with that) and on the authors who are reporters at The Eagle newspaper in Wichita. I really struggled with the authors (reporters) inserting themselves into the narrative more than necessary. It only happened for a relatively short section of the book and it only annoyed me because they did it in third person but it took me out of the narrative and I struggled to get back into it fully. 

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dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

4.5


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valhallamerk's review

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dark informative tense medium-paced

3.5

jujmedeiros's review

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dark

4.0

booksareoxygen's review against another edition

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dark informative medium-paced

3.5