Alexis Nikole Thomas

The Lies

Revisado: 09-23-24

This author plays fast and loose with the truth. I was extremely disappointed to read even just the first chapter and hear so many blatant lies and exaggerations of already heinous crimes. These are historic crimes that the author could easily have verified the truth of by doing more thorough research. For anyone who is interested in reality and facts, I would suggest Herald Schector as the foremost author of historical serial killers. This book was profoundly disappointing and a waste of time and money.

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Mixed Reviews

Revisado: 08-19-22

Implying that justice can only be reserved for those who are the victims of a violent crime is to ignore the reality of the complexity of life, in that in too many cases it is the perpetrator of violent crimes who are also victims of violent crimes themselves; and that life cannot be drawn into neatly cut sections as we wish. Protect the victims, rehabilitate if possible, imprison when we have to and put to death those we must. We should not be ending a book about serial killers by implying the only way to provide justice to a serial killer is by killing them. There are also some cases where there are mitigating circumstances, such as Ed Gein, Richard Chase, Albert Fish, Herbert Mullen. These men were clinically insane, mentally ill with their brains telling them horrible things that were not there. Not every case can be judged the same.

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Revisionist History Isn't History

Revisado: 06-20-22

This book was going great until: "Footnote: Simms is a hugely controversial figure today, owing that he developed the procedure by performing experimental surgery on black slave women, possibly without informed consent." POSSIBLY? I'm not sure if you are aware Thomas Morris author of The Mystery of Exploding Teeth, and revisionist history white man, but ENSLAVED black women cannot offer consent to their white doctors during slavery?! There is no 'possibly' about it. He performed hundreds of surgeries on black women and black infants WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT and without ANESTHESIA, many times having the women on their hands and knees for hours on end ignoring their cries of pain; and his practices and findings have had lasting impacts today, such as the belief that black women feel less pain, and a higher rate of death for black women when they go into the hospital because doctors take their pain less seriously. Before you write a book about medical procedures throughout history you better take several seats and recognize the barbarity and mutilation that white doctors have done throughout history and still continue to perpetuate in this racist society we call America. I am extremely disappointed by this book to say the least.

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Homophobic and Sexist

Revisado: 05-30-22

I hate it. This book is homophobic and sexist like a lot of his books but this one really takes the cake. Not even out of the first chapter and he's saying, and I quote: "Aileen Wuornos was not one of the soft pretty L Word type of lesbians but a dyke..." and then I cut it off because as a queer person I literally can't. I can't. I caution female presenting and queer people before buying this book, it's a really rough read.

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Murder with a side of Fatphobia

Revisado: 01-19-22

Definitely some fatphobia in this book. Author definitely mentions MANY times how the murdereress was fat and that's why men found her unattractive and THAT'S why she killed her children. 😒😐. Not because she was a psychopath who wanted the insurance money from the $100,000 worth of life insurance she took out on her kids? Okay. Other than that the book is great. 🙄

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Tone

Revisado: 01-03-22

This book had overall a tone of sexism that I found very uncomfortable. The author stated that it was 'kind of funny' when the measuring man was tricking women into being measured into which he would then sexually assault them. The author claims the women didn't even notice, and only complained when they didn't become models. I found that extremely sexist as a sexual assault and rape survivor, I guarantee you people notice when they get sexually assaulted. The author also compared homosexuality to pedophilia and necrophiliacs, which was a theological leap I haven't seen since the early 2000s. The sexism and homophobia in this book is quite stunning, as is the heterosexist view the author peddles throughout human history. If you can grit your teeth through that, he sure has a lot of thoughts.

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