Chicago’s Famous Fair Targets Serial Killer by Alexandra Serrato

Around the blooming years of 1893, when the Chicago World’s Fair also known as The World’s Columbian Exposition was under construction, serial killer H. H. Holmes acquired the fair as a target to find his victims. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, is a nonfiction novel focused on the construction of The World’s Columbian Exposition and crime being committed around the same time. Murderer H. H. Holmes and architect Daniel Burnham are the main characters of the novel, who counteract but have a connection between them. I would rank this book a three out of five stars, because the novel contains some very high points, with attention-grabbing and exciting sections, yet it also had some low historical sections, that weren’t all that fascinating. I recommend this book to adult who are interested in the evolution of the city of Chicago. The Devil in the White City, would not necessary be a book one would read for fun. However, I would not say this novel is not for teenagers, because it provides good historical information about the city of Chicago as well as an outstanding theme one can walk away with after reading the novel.