Stay Fetters's Reviews > Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

"The world has created me and I am free to do what I want. On death row, asked whether he has regrets, he laughs."

Just like the rest of the world, I am a true crime junkie and I may know too much about these killers. That's okay, we all have to be good at something and this is my thing. At least I'm not in love with these weirdos like some people out in the world.

I was excited to read this because it sounded interesting and something new for the genre. Nothing new will come out about these mostly now passed serial killers, so this was the next best thing. Well, sad to say that this brought nothing new to the table. All I know is that I would never trust this author. That's a story for a different day.

This was interesting to a point but got to be very tedious. I didn't like the writing style and the author highly enjoyed writing about some of these murders. It was creepy. She also pinned some unsolved murders on people when she didn't know for sure who had committed them. They may have happened around the same time but with zero evidence, you have no case. My patience with this book was very thin.

What I liked was the deeper look at Bundy and his very bizarre travels, the story of BTK and his desire to be caught, and we cannot forget Ramírez and his sleeping at the cemetery. Those are the stories I was looking for here but they were few and far between. I wanted the weirdness.

"Murderland' wasn't what I thought it was going to be. Probably something I would never read again.