A review by victoriafrost1991
The Alienist by Caleb Carr

4.0

What to write as a review? The pros is that I enjoyed learning about the birth of forensic psychology and the development of detective work at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Plus, looking at landmarks and actual historical figures in the arts, finance policing and more were great. The different attitudes between classes, Americans born in the states versus immigrants was cool to look at. Yet, the novel was slow.