Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders by Billy Jensen

8 reviews

amandat's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, Violence, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Addiction and Rape

mah_verloren's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.75

True crime
Memoir

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Transphobia, Suicide, Racism, Violence, Sexual violence, Murder, Gun violence, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Stalking, Rape, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, Torture, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Hate crime, and Grief

kimib79's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious medium-paced

3.75

This is an interesting book. If more people spoke out and penalties for violent offenders were harsher I believe we'd have fewer unsolved crimes.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Child death, Gun violence, and Rape

narpetcards's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

audreads100's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual violence, Violence, Death, and Death of parent

madelonpaige's review

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Stalking, Gun violence, and Death

travelseatsreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I am morbidly obsessed with everything true crime so I was so excited to listen to this. Those of you who have read I'll Be Gone In The Dark by the late Michelle McNamara or who have listened to My Favorite Murder will be already aware of Billy Jensen and the amazing work he has done to help solve murders and more.

I knew this was going to be a fascinating listen but I wasn't prepared for just how good it was. The level of work, effort and money that Jensen has put into helping people find lost loved ones, fugitives and murderers is insane! 

Within this book he details just how it all started, why it started and why he keeps going. The book is filled with fascinating stories of some very tragic cases. Some will stay with me for a long time, especially that of Henryk Siwiak.

I've seen some people complain about the format of the book that it jumps around a bit from case to case but I actually enjoyed that aspect because it reflects the reality of the work and nature of trying to get justice for these victims.

If you have any interest in true crime, even a passing one, this needs to be on your reading list.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual violence, Trafficking, and Violence

ticvoria_'s review against another edition

dark informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.0

Interesting part-memoir, part-amateur-true-sleuth-instruction-manual. Shows that amazingly there are good things that can come out of social media.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Death, and Violence