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The Killer Book of Serial Killers: Incredible Stories, Facts and Trivia from the World of Serial Killers by Tom Philbin, Michael Philbin

3 reviews

blondebookishbabe's review against another edition

dark informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Stalking, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Violence, Mental illness, and Death

wenyd1's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

4.0

It's grusome in many ways. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Suicide, Death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Cannibalism, Child death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Torture

Before you read this be in a good place some of the things are really nasty

grayisasleep's review against another edition

dark informative

2.5

As someone who is planning on majoring in psychology in college, and going into a career involving criminal psychology, it’s unsurprising to learn that I’ve always been very into true-crime. I had heard the tales of every every serial killer featured in this book. But that’s where I find issue with it. If I hadn’t been familiar with these killers prior to reading then I wouldn’t have learned much of anything. In a lot of instances the backgrounds of these people and/or what occurred after their arrest is not covered whatsoever. So if I hadn’t previously looked into them I would be missing huge chunks of information. And obviously I know you can’t cover every single person’s entire life in one book, but even a few sentences more would have been very insightful. I also really didn’t appreciate the generalization of serial killers. In this book the authors often state things like for example, “Serial killers take trophies” (this is not a quote taken directly from the book I’m just using this as an example) which is not always true. Not every killer does the things they’re saying they do, and I think if you’re going to write a book about them then maybe don’t put them all in the same category. Because that’s just not realistic. They also used words like “batty” or “loony” when describing mental illness which is just ignorant and plain offensive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Pedophilia, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Violence, Body horror, Torture, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Slavery, Sexual content, Stalking, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Gun violence, Racism, Gore, Death, Child death, Cannibalism, and Blood

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Car accident, Vomit, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury