The Devil in the White City

I'm pretty sure I hated this book. But then I also found some things interesting, so maybe “hate” is a strong word. I think what bothers me the most about this book is that it won best nonfiction horror and best fact crime awards and it is not really a crime book and it's definitely not a horror book. It's a long, long, long book describing in excruciating detail how the Chicago World's Fair was built from the ground up with a side note about a maniac that was killing people. I read a graphic novel about HH Holmes that was more informative than this entire book was. He would go off on these tangents about the mayor or some builder or how shredded wheat was predicted to fail as a product for pages and pages and pages. Then Holmes would kill someone and that took up a few paragraphs then back to the fair. I feel like this was a bait and switch book! Even the epilogue was long winded and hardly about Holmes!!