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A review by skirmishgirl
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
1.0
Hogwash.
The writing is overblown and irritating. The narrative is so disjointed as to be almost unreadable. I kept hoping something was going to happen that would bring it together, and yet nothing ever did. By the time the killer is announced, the author felt the need to give an expository chapter of the hows and whys, when he had done that at least once before, when leading the reader to the wrong idea of who the killer is.
I forced myself to finish it only because I invested so much time in it, but I wouldn't recommend it.
The writing is overblown and irritating. The narrative is so disjointed as to be almost unreadable. I kept hoping something was going to happen that would bring it together, and yet nothing ever did. By the time the killer is announced, the author felt the need to give an expository chapter of the hows and whys, when he had done that at least once before, when leading the reader to the wrong idea of who the killer is.
I forced myself to finish it only because I invested so much time in it, but I wouldn't recommend it.