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Bad Men by Julie Mae Cohen

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ineedsomemoretea's review against another edition

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dark funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Oh boy this made me uncomfortable! Really interesting plot and I felt so frustrated by how the main character manipulated everyone around her. This book illicited a lot of emotions from me.

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2.0

First off, I LOVE this premise. I read the description as a Dexter-esque story but as a woman. I am all about women taking their power back, even as a serial killer. Once I got started with this book, I was hooked with the story of Saffy and her sister and what happened with their stepfather. Unfortunately, as the audiobook proceeded, it seemed to lack that initial intrigue that the beginning offered. The two mentions of farts within the first 25% of this audiobook had me side-eyeing a bit and made me take this book less seriously. I found Saffy to honestly be a terrible feminist when that was kind of the whole premise. The way she talked about women was not how I'd picture a serial killing feminist acting at all. The real killer was not a surprise to me either. On top of the things I've listed here, I thought the reader would get much more of how Saffy completes her murders, just how we did in the beginning portion of this book. I wanted all of the gory nitty gritty details and didn't get any of that with any other murder that took place. I honestly just feel terrible for John and the mess he was put in with Saffy, his wife, the real killer, etc. Poor guy! I wouldn't say this was a bad book by any means, but it was lacking in a lot of intrigue, mystery, and gore, in my opinion.

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4.25

gang NEEDS to know that I fw sociopathic women, especially rich ones who commit crimes, I'd like to read a book about a black women who is a sociopath, bc theyre always white idk y but whatever, idrgaf, anyways, I would like another book that focus on Jon's decent into madness/murder, but regardless of how good the author is that would just leave the series feeling cheap, so maybe don't do that? but if the author did I'd prob read it lol, seriously I fw this novel. somehow I didn't see the Simone thing happening, I totally shouldve though, that was so oblivious, I did see the body bag and Cyrus thing coming tho, so I'm not dumb or anything <3 I loved to see how saffy manipulated ppl, though some of her murders, especially her step fathers, didn't feel super plausible, but I mean she was in a state of panic so maybe? idk, I've never tried to drown anyone, I also kind of wish we could have seen Jon's reaction to saffy murdering someone in front of him, but I also get why Simon had to be killed by jon

edit: as a side not, I hate how the title of the book is "bad men" like not only does the title litterally include the word man in a book that is somewhat misandristy but like come on! the focus of this book is not on saffys victims but saffys herself, her victims are a product of her morals and actions, not really their own people, the title shouldn't include/focus on them, why does a book about a female serial killer falling in love focus on THE MEN she kills??