hollanddavis 's review for:

Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
3.5
 This felt like three separate books:
1. A first about the Salem Witch Trials
2. A second about the American Revolution
3. A third about 20th century exorcisms


Given the book’s description, this was not what I expected. I genuinely enjoyed the first half about the history leading up to the Salem Witch Trials and the account of the trials themselves, but once the book kept going it started to lose me. It was obviously well written and thoroughly researched, and maybe I would’ve been more receptive if I’d known what I was signing up for, but it was jarring without a heads up.