katiedavis 's review for:

The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale

1.75

informative slow-paced

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This book contained so many extraneous details, presumably to pad out a story that actually wasn’t much of a story, that I kept losing the plot entirely and had to remind myself what it was that I was reading. It threw the pacing off and made the entire thing just drag on forever. It could have used another couple of rounds of editing.