A review by goose
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green

dark informative sad slow-paced

3.75

I wanted to love this book more than I did, but maybe Green’s writing style isn’t for me. The writing of the book isn’t straightforward and sometimes take a meandering stroll down an avenue that you can’t quite figure out the relevance of until the next page break. However, in terms of bringing to light a forgotten case as well as bringing to life that time in Manhattan for queer people it does a great job. I also think centering the book around the victims and their lives is how true crime should be. I do wish we got to hear more from the Anti Violence Group, maybe that would be for a different book. I also commend the sheer amount of work researching for the book must have been. Truly bravo on that front. The followups in the epilogue as well as in the addition written in 2021 for this edition were a nice treat, even though they come with bad news. 
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