Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer

11 reviews

emma6544's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Domestic abuse

sofiam19's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Infidelity, Confinement, Slavery, Torture, Body horror, Classism, Death, Excrement, Murder, Child death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: War, Vomit, and Incest

lilithsnow's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

What a page turning read! I loved the tone of this book. It was serious enough for the subject matter (serial killers) without taking itself too seriously. The Nannie chapter was perfectly placed to bring in a more lighthearted tone - killer granny - before moving on to the more… depressing(?) themes of the following women killers. While Nannie didn’t really know why she killed, it was more for her pleasure than anything, the sisters from Fez seemed to start out from necessity of poverty - not that that excuses any of their actions at all.

It’s a fascinating look into the history of female serial killers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Abortion, Classism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Gore, Abandonment, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Animal death

kaylajo3333's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Murder, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Child death, Sexual violence, Grief, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Torture, and Death

idun_aurora's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.0

As an introduction to female serial killers, this was very well done. I'm sure there is more to all the stories thta would warrant them entire books of their own (I think there is a book called The Angelmakers about the Nagyrev poisonings), but this book gives much depth and insight on the few pages reserved for each chapter. You can grab onto what interested you the most and dig deeper elsewhere! Great book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Abortion, Alcohol, Blood, Child death, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Hate crime, Incest, Infidelity, Murder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, War, Confinement, Misogyny, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

sarahaf712's review

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Abortion, Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexual violence

Minor: Incest

epeolatri's review against another edition

medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Death, Violence, Child death, and Sexism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, and Classism

Minor: Sexual content, Torture, Excrement, Rape, Suicide, Infidelity, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Grief, and Incest

yeojinqueen's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative slow-paced

4.25

Wish there had been more variety it was mostly poisonings with arsenic so some of the stories faded away in my head 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pregnancy, Torture, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

amna_a's review

dark informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit

beersbooksandbooos's review

informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

 I read this in one day and I really found it very entertaining. It kept me hooked and wanting more. I have heard of one or two of the killers in the book but most were new to me. I had to look them up after I was done reading because I wanted to know more about them. I understood why she picked older women to write about and that is what I liked about the book the most. I will be picking up her new books once it comes out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, and Mental illness