This sequel to 'The Alienist' delivers what you would expect in terms of a psychological murder mystery. The investigation will, again, break down the antagonist down to their core psychological units. Even the basic concept of a female criminal set in the 1900's is a new one and again the author introduces new concepts such as ballistics and forensic analysis for the use of investigations. All in all a great story.
That being said, this book is just too verbose. There's no reason why it should have been 750 pages, even when the story was over I still have 50 pages to go. In addition the writing style gets downright annoying. The extremely long sentences kept me searching for the subject and made it impossible to speed read and I've never seen so many brackets used in a fiction novel in my life.
Overall a good book to read if you have time and can speed read. But if you're going to read one of Caleb Carr's book, it has to be the predecessor 'The Alienist'.
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