Reviews tagging 'Trafficking'

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

4 reviews

a_meanderer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Grief, Trafficking, Violence, Torture, Medical content, Murder, Blood, and Child death

theabee's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Terminal illness, Colonisation, Infidelity, and Trafficking

Minor: Suicide

crownoflaurel's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Colonisation, and Child death

Moderate: Classism and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Xenophobia, Mental illness, Medical content, Trafficking, and Stalking

samarakroeger's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

My SIXTH Erik Larson book in the span of one month. Dear god.

Anyways, this is probably his most well-known book (and was the hardest to get ahold of on libby). The two narrative threads were both interesting (something that was lacking in his most similar book to this, Thunderstruck). I sometimes got lost in the sea of names (looking at you, architects), but it didn’t detract from the story.  I honestly didn’t know much about the Chicago World’s Fair (or the murders). I would have liked to have known more about how the event changed America (it’s part of the title) and whether it inspired something similar in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Trafficking, Violence, and Child death