During the early 1890’s,
there was an enormous desire to showcase the brilliance of the United States in
any manner possible, so the U.S. decided to create a fair in Chicago that
would attract millions of types of people from around the world. Unfortunately,
the fair managed to attract one preposterous guest that would become infamous
for his various homicides, which would leave a permanent mark in the history of
the Chicago circa 1893. The Devil in
the White City, by Eric Larson, is an informative and extremely descriptive
novel about murder and mystery. The book focuses on the Chicago and how it enticed a serial killer named Dr. H. H. Holmes to extract
his many victims from the visitors of the fair. The novel focuses on
describing the atmosphere in which the central characters were, in order to
give the reader a larger understanding of why and how the homicides happened in
the fair. I enjoyed the novel immensely and I would give the author nine and a
half stars out of ten. I would give Larson this rank because it was a very
descriptive book that guaranteed to give us the best thorough interpretation of
the events in the fair without neglecting any crucial points that would
compromise the readers comprehension of the topic of the book. My only
complaint is that the beginning of the novel was not incredibly interesting and
there were some descriptions that were not necessary to the storyline. I would
recommend this novel to murder and mystery fanatics, mainly because those are
the principal elements of the book and the events that occur in the book are
extremely surprising. I would also recommend this novel to people who are
interested in psychology and have a particular interest in what occurs inside
the mind of a narcissistic murderer.
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