A review by luxlunae47
My Dark Places by James Ellroy

3.0

The parts that were about the crime were more tedious, frustrating, and repetitive than the actual investigation could possibly be.

The section about his own youth... the language just blows you away and is really interesting. Most people have a somewhat positive view of themselves. He has enough distance from the "shitbird" he was as a child and teenager to give an unflinching and fascinating accounting of his extremely immoral behavior from that time.

I found the book very unsatisfying except for the hour I spent on that part of the book.