A review by lastminute
Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo

3.0

I actually never finished this book; I ended up skimming it. Partly this was I ran out of time before I had to turn it in, but not entirely. There was a lot of non-shark description going on in this book; a review I read somewhere else (can't remember where, curses) said this book offers a better glimpse of life in America at the beginning of the 20th century than it does of the shark attacks and I think that's true. I was really hoping for more of a thriller type book, so I kept getting bogged down in the description of individuals' lives and how society operated at the time. Or maybe I'm just spoiled by fiction books like Meg.