She Kills Me

This was a fun little book that gave brief little accounts of female murders and why they murdered and who they murdered. The book was inspired by the author who was fascinated by society's disbelief at female violence and females having the ability to kill. This book is a compilation of the worlds most brutal women and their crimes and motivations. While this book deals with everything from female cannibals to female pirates and warriors, it included more historical female figures than modern serial killers for instance. This would be a great coffee table book if you and your friends like dark things (like female killers) as they are short little focused chapters on individual women you can dip in and out of. It was interesting but I would have preferred more detailed chapters and less women selected as I think it left the reading very surface level. I love true crime non-fiction that really reads like compelling narrative non-fiction so I think this book felt more like a coffee table book/young adult gruesome history book. I wanted more academic exploration into criminology theory or true crime archives to really understand why the women killed instead of statements the author inferred about the female but with no real strong explanation/ intellectual reference behind it. But that's just my personal preference but I still enjoyed reading it.

Thanks to the publisher Abram image, author Jennifer Wright and Netgalley for a review copy in exchange for an honest review.