stormlightreader 's review for:

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

4.0

informative slow-paced

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This book started off really strong with the history of the Sackler family but goes off on tangents towards the middle and doesn't really get back on track. It was hard to follow the timeline. In terms of the writing, it goes back and forth between factual writing and descriptive like a story (not something I enjoyed) and it did get a bit repetitive towards the end, so could have been shorter but there was lots of interesting detail and worth the read.