A review by beauty_andbooks
The Kidnap Years: The Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America by David Stout

dark emotional informative mysterious tense medium-paced

2.0

I get the idea of this book and I think it had good intentions of being a great nonfiction book. But in the end I was bored by the time I read 20% of the book. The kidnapping stories all ended up seeming like repeated information and the same story. I was just uninterested by that point. I think it’s well written and easy to understand as a nonfiction full of dates and names. I think you’d enjoy this book if you were into the gangs of the 1930s. 

*Thanks to netgalley, the author and publisher for a complimentary book to review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Child death, Suicide, Death, Violence, Antisemitism, and Confinement