A review by badseedgirl
The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle

4.0

Can you prove you are not insane? If you spent 24 hours a day with people who were insane, how long would it take for you to start buying into others delusions? Less of a horror novel and more of an indictment of the mental health care industry, The Devil In Silver left me feeling just a bit uncomfortable. In the same way I felt uncomfortable after reading [b:The Jungle|41681|The Jungle|Upton Sinclair|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1332140681s/41681.jpg|1253187] by Upton Sinclair. But is this book really "muckracking?" I don't have an answer. I would like to think that the million tiny little abuses suffered by the patients in this book are exaggerated for poetic purposes, but a small and surprisingly vocal part of my brain suspects they might not be.

This was an incredibly well written story with characters so well developed that I felt I knew these characters, and I felt I was experiencing the events in the story.

4.5 of 5 stars (Man, I sure with Goodreads allowed reviews with 1/2 stars.)