brb_reads 's review for:

American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse

4.0

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Well, this book was.... bizarre. I knew it would be by reading the blurb and is why I picked it as my BOTM pick last July, but whew. I couldn’t put it down once I started. It had a lot of tropes that I’m a fan of: small town, true crime, a story where you know who committed the crime and are just waiting for all the details to unravel, interesting crime facts, etc. There were several websites, people and movies mentioned that I kept notes of on Evernote to look up later. To sum it up, I enjoyed the read and sometimes had to remind myself that this was a true story with real life people because of how off-the-wall some of it sounded.