![]() The best historical narratives, in my opinion, are the ones that bring history to life. There were a few times where I thought I heard the same quotes more than once, but as a general rule, the story felt like a story. I'm sure there is a lot to Chicago that's beautiful and fabulous, but I'm so drawn by its dark history.ĭouglas Perry does a fantastic job of laying out the narrative. The city pulled me into this book, and it ended up being a hybrid of crime history and theatre history and I gobbled it up. Between The Girls of Murder City and The Devil in the White City, color me officially intrigued in Chicago. From a purely romanticized perspective, Chicago was its own world of blood and deceit and danger. I'm more an ancient history person, and years of reading traditional fantasy has me deeply interested in Western Europe. ![]() ![]() In that light, The Girls of Murder City is fabulously done. Before that, I had thoughts about the way the story had been drawn out, and why there was so much time with the reporters and not just with the murderesses (I wanted more murderesses, dammit) and it's a whole different perspective, to be honest. It literally took me half the book to realize "Chicago" meant Chicago, not Chicago. In the extended title of this book, it says "who inspired Chicago". ![]()
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