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Darktown by Thomas Mullen
3.0

I expected more of this novel. Maybe the hype that surrounded it for a little over than two years is to blame but in all honesty, I expected more.
I expected the racial tension between policemen to be a bigger part of the story. That's how that novel was sold to me and it fell a little flat.

This is also an uneven paced novel, where the reader feels like the story is unraveling at 100 mph in chapter two but then hits a brick wall in chapter three where it drags on and on for one too many pages.

Not a big fan of novels that feels like they have been written with the sole intention of turning them into a movie or TV show. This one sure feels like it.

Nonetheless, it is a good crime-mystery novel. But it is just that.
I expected more.