Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer

7 reviews

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

rcsreads's review

dark informative medium-paced

2.5

There's a lot of speculation in this. In the case of Alice Kyteler in particular there's no proof she ever killed anyone. Several of the women didn't work alone but Telfer attributes all the murders to them when, again, there's no proof.
 For several of the murdresses I can just Google female serial killers and get more information than Telfer provides and frequently better writing. There's nothing on the Benders that I can't learn from Wikipedia and it has more detail and less of an obsession with how attractive Kate was.
 If you want an in depth look at which murdresses were the prettiest then this is the book for you. If you want actual facts then there are plenty of online articles and probably many better written books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Incest, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

westeggspinster's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, Suicide, Child abuse, and Alcoholism

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

bugfriend's review

dark funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Blood

Minor: Cannibalism, Excrement, Grief, Incest, Rape, and Suicide