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Review title: This book is deadly dull.
Product review: The Alienist is simply a revision of his earlier novel - The Angel of Darkness. Once again, we learn about the early days of detection and criminology. The characters are almost all the same and exceptionally wooden in their dialogue. They are so earnest and so clever you ache to hurt them. To spice up his revision Carr adds luckless, pathetic, supposedly endearing prostitutes and thieves. They are no more than regurgitations of characters from thousands of other mysteries. I was so bored, I couldn't finish it. I happened to see someone purchase it and I felt ashamed that I didn't warn him.
