Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders

7 reviews

aportraitinflesh's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, Alcohol, and Classism

alstorey99's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

I was very interested to see how we compare today in regards to viewing murders as people viewed it in the 1800s, and it made me very reflective on my own personal interests in crime, especially murders. However, I did feel at times I had to force myself to slog through and read it because there was so much information that just felt like it became repetitive. Which a lot of the views of the 1800 murders were. I felt as though the original point of the book got lost in the bulk of information that would be given to you. It was a fascinating book though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, and Murder

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Sexual violence, and Antisemitism

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Miscarriage, and Physical abuse

collins1129's review against another edition

dark informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

mothdan's review against another edition

dark funny informative mysterious slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, and Colonisation

Minor: Miscarriage

malloryfitz's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Cannibalism, and Pregnancy

Minor: Abortion

acesnsk8s's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Sexual violence, and Violence

Minor: Racial slurs

About what you'd expect from the title--a lot of terrible things are mentioned, or briefly described, but the author doesn't glory in the details.