Scan barcode
alexblackreads's review
4.0
I dunno how to really describe this in a review. It's an anthology of journalism articles about or relating to crime. Like, if you think you'll like this book, you probably will. It just is what it is.
As with all anthologies, I'm not rating each article as four stars. Some were fantastic, some I really hated. But in general, I was always excited to read this book and always interested in what the next essay would bring.
One thing that struck me as odd was how many of these articles were conservative leaning. Arguments for why police should have more power and less oversight, authors who gave credence to conspiracy theories about Palestine, an apologist for an Islamophobic murder after 9/11, RFK Jr defending a cousin of a murder charge. It was a little strange how frequent it was.
I also wound up skipping a few essays entirely because I'd read them in other places.
But the essays in here that were worth reading were really wonderful and it offered a lot of variety of topic. So if you think you'd like this, I'm sure you would.
As with all anthologies, I'm not rating each article as four stars. Some were fantastic, some I really hated. But in general, I was always excited to read this book and always interested in what the next essay would bring.
One thing that struck me as odd was how many of these articles were conservative leaning. Arguments for why police should have more power and less oversight, authors who gave credence to conspiracy theories about Palestine, an apologist for an Islamophobic murder after 9/11, RFK Jr defending a cousin of a murder charge. It was a little strange how frequent it was.
I also wound up skipping a few essays entirely because I'd read them in other places.
But the essays in here that were worth reading were really wonderful and it offered a lot of variety of topic. So if you think you'd like this, I'm sure you would.
More...