Italy: The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
Thoughts: For awhile in middle school, I got really obsessed with criminology and read probably hundreds of thousands of pages on true crime stories. So reading this took me back to those heady seventh grade nights home alone scaring myself senseless reading about serial killers, except, of course, this book was well written and I wasn’t home alone this time – there was both me and Tesfa that I could envision being slaughtered or mutilated by some sort of maniac. Note to future meghan: Do not read books about serial killers after dark while home alone. It is not good for your brain.
There are a lot of people in this book. Sometimes I found it hard to follow. But there is both a helpful index and a helpful list of characters in order of appearance. This mitigated the confusion. It really isn’t as sensationalistic as the blurbs make it out to be either. A good read but I’ll probably forget all about it in a few years. It doesn’t have a great deal of stickiness or memorability.
Rating: 4/5