The Devil in the White City

At first I thought it wouldn't be fair (ha) to rate this based on how good of a true crime book I thought it was, being that it is more heavily weighted toward a historical fictiony non-fiction account of the World's Fair. But then I remembered the title, The Devil in the White City, which suggests more time would be spent following H. H. Holmes than the architects of the World's Fair. The writing jumps back and forth between these two things, with a little extra here and there, and never brings them together. Larson is a fairly (ha again) skilled writer and would have done better to separate these into two books. Apart from that, I could've done without the heavy foreshading at the end of every chapter. I found the architect talk incredibly boring, but that was simply due to finding architecture boring and not Larson's writing about it.