A review by audaciaray
The Alienist by Caleb Carr

4.0

I'm a total sucker for anything about late nineteenth century New York, and I get pretty excited about historical fiction. I think I squeaked out loud when Anthony Comstock and JP Morgan made their appearances in The Alienist. It's a quick read (even at 600 pages long), and not a fine work of literature, but I really enjoyed this book and felt very much transported to the streets of NYC in 1896. Plus there's a spunky gun-wielding female wannabe detective, which warmed my feminist heart.