Reviews tagging 'Death'

A Taste for Poison by Neil Bradbury

30 reviews

abby_can_read's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.0

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I enjoyed this book. This book contained eleven poisons, and for each one Bradbury explained how each one worked and how it was used by a killer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Medical trauma, and Vomit

rubyslippers96's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Murder

barbarella85's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Murder

chloeknight's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

4.75

I really enjoyed this audiobook! 
The split for each poison, going from what it is, how it was used originally and then for nefarious means, and then cures (if possible!) were very informative and kept me engaged. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death and Murder

anniereads221's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Animal death, Death, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Medical content, Gore, Child death, Blood, Violence, Suicide, Sexism, Murder, Drug use, and Animal cruelty

siobhanward's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.0

 I've read a few books on this topic now, and while this was a decent book, it wasn't my favourite that I've read (that would be The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum). Bradbury told a good story, but often the pieces felt disjointed and sometimes a bit too quick. While some of these books struggle with being too scientific, this one felt almost too surface-level at times.

It was still a fun read and if you enjoy poison/true crime/Victorian science, it's definitely worth picking up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Medical content, and Death

lovely_lisa's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

I really liked it. I was quiet interesting and honestly a bit disturbing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

helena_chris's review against another edition

dark funny informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Medical content, Death, Child death, and Animal death

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Abortion, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Drug abuse and Addiction

atalea's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death, Drug abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Medical trauma

Minor: Vomit

cmbohn's review against another edition

dark informative relaxing medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Medical content

Moderate: Child death, Genocide, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail