HALLIE: This book was the entwining of the stories of two different people during the World's Fair and Exposition located in Chicago in 1893. One of the men was David Burnham, the director of all works of the Exposition. It showed his trials, obstacles, and processes of creating/designing/constructing one of the biggest fairs in the world's history in just under 2 years. The other story is of one of the biggest serial killers the world had known then. The way the author tied together the stories and many of the facts and interesting tidbits that happened was rather confusing and he would mention something, only to mention it again right away with a little add-on telling you to remember it. Now for most readers maybe that is nice but hey I can remember what happened earlier on in a story and I don't need an author to make it foolproof for me. It also makes me want to know what it is suggesting right away.
Other than that, I enjoyed reading about the fair in a historical sense and I recognized a number of inventions that were new then and are commonplace now, as well as many of the people who came to the fair and our famous these days so that was cool. Read it if you're interested in the history of the World Fair and Chicago but then again I'm sure there are better books about it out there as well.
