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Hannibal Rising
by Thomas Harris
Hannibal Rising is a prequel novel to the Lecter series that details the youth and young adult life of Hannibal Lecter as he grows from a child to a monster. The book isn't entirely bad, but it is slow and feels unnecessary. This backstory gives a perfectly sane and simple reason Hannibal became a cannibal (and not just because it rhymes) which makes his character less interesting. Harris seems to be obsessed with humanizing Hannibal and giving him reasons for why he became the person he became. To an extent that's fine, but it makes his character far less interesting. Hannibal was much better as a mysterious psychopath.