A review by autumnarnold
The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara

slow-paced

2.0

I was deeply excited by finding this book and couldn’t wait to dive in. Unfortunately, I found myself struggling to finish it. Early in the book O’Meara mentions colleagues expressing concern that there is not enough content available for an entire book and I have to agree. Only a small portion of the book covers Patrick’s work on the Creature, and I found myself feeling incredibly misled. O’Meara clearly lacked the researching expertise to unearth anything new about Patrick’s professional career and instead used the book as a platform to talk about herself and her personal views (which I tend to agree with, but was absolutely not what I wanted from the book). Her casual writing style and speculation on Patrick’s feelings and motivations without offering up evidence led to me believe this subject would have been better covered in a blog post.