Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Mindhunter. Podróż w ciemność by John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker

5 reviews

jiao_li's review against another edition

informative mysterious tense slow-paced

2.5

Uh it was somewhat disappointing. I was expecting gripping true crime stories, but instead, it turned out to be a mix of crime prevention instruction and pretty much a Suzanne Marie Collins' memoir. 

Tbh the narrator was terrible and it often made me drowsy. Perhaps this type of book is better suited for reading rather than listening in audio format. Additionally, the writing itself was kinda bad, which ofcourse affected the narration. 

The most annoying part was the structure, it was messy. John Douglas repeated certain phrases excessively, made it more boring. 

Well the only good thing from the book was the unique perspective it offered by presenting stories from the criminal's pov. Although some cases had been discussed in Mindhunter, delving deeper into these cases still had its own charm.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Murder

atiek's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Grief, Kidnapping, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Gore, Pedophilia, Torture, Murder, Rape, Stalking, and Violence

lucyh95's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Torture, Stalking, Pedophilia, Child death, Rape, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Death, Domestic abuse, Murder, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Child abuse

booksandlattesaddict's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Violence, Stalking, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Grief, Death, and Gore

lauren_the_bookworm's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

4.5

The way John Douglas writes about these cases hooks you from the start. I love the way he gives you the facts of the case the profile, to build up a picture of how these cases got solved. I liked that he went in depth into some cases, particularly the Suzanne Collins case, and enjoyed the detail about after the trial and their work to help victims of these crimes. I found the chapter on the OJ Simpson case a little bit of a money grab (at the time this was written the trial had just ended) and did not reveal any new info about the case, not least because the FBI had not been asked to profile the case. I do enjoy these books and will definitely read more of their work. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Murder, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Violence