ikassa 's review for:

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones

3.0

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Caught between 3/4 stars. It was a good follow up to demon copperhead while I waited for empire of pain, but not my favorite out there. super super repetitive. A lot of the info wasn’t much deeper than what you’d find in a documentary and the commentary didn’t go much further than capitalism = bad. Also the structure of narrative felt a bit haphazard at times. There was clearly a lot of effort and research that went into the project which I really appreciated but idk if I’d recommend this to anyone who was just a casual reader as it’s kinda hard to stay engaged and I think there’s better out there on the opioid crisis