4.0

Slow start, but picks up steadily towards the middle. I guess it's sort of a good parallel to the Hitler regime in Germany: begins with a sense of normalcy, even promise of peace, but as Germany and Berlin, the focus locale of the book, slowly grow into a terrifying dictator-state, it doesn't really sink in until the end how everyone in the world was truly in denial about the rise of the third reich. Terrifying and eye-opening. I enjoyed Devil in the White City a bit more, but that's probably because of the content of the book.