A review by 5elementknitr
The Baltimore Atrocities by
2.0
When I started this book, I thought, "It's delightfully odd!"
But, the closer to the end I came, the more exhausted I felt reading this.
It's a story of two young men who meet in their senior year of high school. They come to find out they both lost a sibling to abduction - both abductions taking place in the same park in Baltimore.
It becomes an obsession for both. They move to Baltimore and try to find those siblings.
This book has a really unique formatting. Each chapter is a few pages of the actual story, followed by 3 (or more as the book progresses) vignettes describing "atrocities". Most of the atrocities are deaths; some accidental, most not. Each vignette is about a page or less and accompanied by a drawing.
For me, this book starts out with real potential and interest, but then the story never really goes anywhere. The obsession and search becomes never-ending and ends up just feeling very draining, for the characters and definitely for me as well.
But, the closer to the end I came, the more exhausted I felt reading this.
It's a story of two young men who meet in their senior year of high school. They come to find out they both lost a sibling to abduction - both abductions taking place in the same park in Baltimore.
It becomes an obsession for both. They move to Baltimore and try to find those siblings.
This book has a really unique formatting. Each chapter is a few pages of the actual story, followed by 3 (or more as the book progresses) vignettes describing "atrocities". Most of the atrocities are deaths; some accidental, most not. Each vignette is about a page or less and accompanied by a drawing.
For me, this book starts out with real potential and interest, but then the story never really goes anywhere. The obsession and search becomes never-ending and ends up just feeling very draining, for the characters and definitely for me as well.