Well, the story line was intriguing and the characters were well developed, but it just didn't hold my interest like [b:The Black Dahlia|21704|The Black Dahlia|James Ellroy|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg|434]. I think it was partly that the writing style was very different - very choppy and possibly intentionally so to mimic the way a 30s and 40s detective would speak (or at least the way they all speak in any 30s or 40s detective movie I have ever seen). It took a while for me to "get" what was going on - there were three main characters and the view point switched making the beginning of the novel hard to understand. However, I could not stop reading this book because I wanted to find out what happened to everyone, especially to Ed Exley, my favorite character.