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jamaretto 's review for:
Talking with Female Serial Killers: A chilling study of the most evil women in the world
by Christopher Berry-Dee
This only even reaches two stars because I have a great interest in the subject matter at hand and the stories themselves were interesting to learn about. However the approach taken in narrating these is vastly inappropriate and honestly it's concerning that such a popularised book has this sort of tone to it.
The title itself is misleading as only a couple of the cases are female serial killers, the rest being one-off female murderers that Berry-Dee classifies (under his opinion) as 'emerging serial killers' that were stopped prematurely. One of these cases might have been acceptable.
My other major concerns are based in his borderline obsession with 1) including killers' sexual orientations as if they're relevant to their criminal history (there's a difference between mentioning such traits in passing and just repetitively bringing them up as if the very word 'lesbian' or 'bisexual' defines them) and 2) describing killers either as attractive to himself or the complete opposite. None of this mattered and the book was so oversaturated with informal opinions that I couldn't take it seriously. I like an informal tone usually as it helps to lighten dark subject matter but this was so ridiculously extreme that I'm shocked it made it to press.
The title itself is misleading as only a couple of the cases are female serial killers, the rest being one-off female murderers that Berry-Dee classifies (under his opinion) as 'emerging serial killers' that were stopped prematurely. One of these cases might have been acceptable.
My other major concerns are based in his borderline obsession with 1) including killers' sexual orientations as if they're relevant to their criminal history (there's a difference between mentioning such traits in passing and just repetitively bringing them up as if the very word 'lesbian' or 'bisexual' defines them) and 2) describing killers either as attractive to himself or the complete opposite. None of this mattered and the book was so oversaturated with informal opinions that I couldn't take it seriously. I like an informal tone usually as it helps to lighten dark subject matter but this was so ridiculously extreme that I'm shocked it made it to press.