So I never knew the The Alienist was a book before television series. So I read that, and then found out that there was another book. Thus I absolutely had to get. I do believe that I like this one better than The Alienist.
The Angel of Darkness is told by the point of view of Dr. Lazlo Kriezler's young ward, Stevie Taggart. Instead of a sex-crazed serial killer, we now have the cunning mind of a woman. This isn't a spoiler as this is literally mentioned in the first chapter. Along with this mastermind female is the potential for war with Spain, and the New York gangs. However, will Kriezler and team stop wars?
In the first novel, the readers had to agonizingly watch as John Moore grew up, and Kriezler faced some hard demons. In this novel, it is Stevie that our hearts go out to. Stevie who has found a home with Kriezler but has never forgotten his roots. It's educating in a way that history books can never quite reach. And entertaining in it's depths that television cannot dive.
The case itself settles for the reader into a nightmare no parent would ever wish to endure. What was thought of as a political fueled child abduction has turned into a string of child murders. The team leaves New York City to follow the trail to a small town that still holds fear for a woman long gone. The psychiatry and the crime flow so smoothly, it's almost impossible to see where one starts and another begins.
I rated this 5 out 5 and encourage others to read it as well. It's historical fiction that brings the time period alive. It's fictional lives that give a big picture of what it was actually like. It's so well researched, and impossible to put down.
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