Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf

40 reviews

princessdana36's review

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

3.75

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, and Blood

directorpurry's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Antisemitism

physicalsecrets's review

dark sad tense fast-paced

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Mental illness, and Murder

mohrsecode's review

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

3.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Homophobia, and Sexual content

louislover's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

It was a nice change to see a book about someone like this based on their life before they did what they did, it was really interesting to see from someone who actually knew him the things he noticed as he looks back on it. 

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Stalking, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism

nicmedia123's review

dark informative sad tense fast-paced

3.0

Review:
This was a disturbing portrait of the notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer as a middle and high school kid in the 70s. He lived with combative parents, and his mother also suffered from mental illness. There was no intervention made by any adult at either school Dahmer attended, but it was also a different time.
Dahmer had few friends, and he lived a very isolated life. He became an alcoholic in high school.

The drawings evoke his robotic and wooden personality as well as his dark inner thoughts.

This is an important read, especially for adults who work with kids, so that we can recognize the signs of mental illness, depression and alcoholism so interventions can happen, but there is no guarantee that these may have helped. This might also help kids to say something when they see something.

Read this if you enjoy true crime, criminal psychology, work with teens or tweens.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Bullying

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Violence

evelynleigh's review

dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Alcohol

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Mental illness, Rape, Violence, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Violence and Cannibalism

mountaindrew28's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

4.25

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, and Murder

greenrequiem's review

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Homophobia, and Mental illness

Moderate: Bullying and Murder

Minor: Racism

calamitymeat's review

dark tense fast-paced

3.75

Not as sensationalized and out of touch as literally any other true crime story. I appreciate that Backderf only explicitly shows or mentions the murders like 2 or 3 times. It's a lot more tasteful and respectful to the victims and their families than portraying in detail the brutal murder and torture of gay men of colour, unlike other books and shows about Dahmer. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Alcohol

Moderate: Blood and Toxic friendship

Minor: Homophobia, Suicide, Vomit, and Cannibalism