maxwellsage 's review for:

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

2.5

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I only read the Prologue. This type of intense historical fiction is not usually my type of read, and reading the Prologue furthered the notion that while I respect that this is clearly a strong concept (putting a story to all the unknown in the Black Dahlia case), it is not for me. The Prologue was a very intense start writing wise and didn’t exactly draw me in enough to make me interested enough to keep reading. I saw some reviews on here that say this book takes a long time to bet to the actual death, and again I respect the author’s creativity, but I am only reading a Black Dahlia book to read about her death and not the lengthy preambles of the fake investigator characters.

All that said about historical fiction, I would someday like to read Stephen King’s book on the Kennedy assassination.