A review by debjazzergal
My Dark Places by James Ellroy

4.0

I had a hard time getting into this book. The first section really dragged for me because the writer seemed to write very woodenly about his experiences. It was almost as if he needed to not connect to his own life experiences in order to write about them. It picked up from there, and I had a hard time putting it down. Besides thinking about everything he and his family experienced, it also made me think about are writers born to write or is the passion to write a development along the way. In this case, it seems he was born to write in the genre in which he famous.