I had never heard of the Acid Bath Murderer, so I was definitely intrigued. I've read a few other true crime books, but it's definitely not high on my list of things that I read about, but it's good to read something different once in a while.

First of all, I have no idea where goodreads gets the page count from, because I read the entire book in about an hour. I read fast, but not that fast.

The book very straightforwardly tells you about John, his early years, and the murders, along with his trials, his death, and even some information about the prison he lived in before he was executed, along with other famous prison residents. The book was interesting, but read very much like a teenager's paper for school, or perhaps the authors intended the book to be written in such a fashion. Though the story was very interesting, it told us just the facts, and only talked about John's motivations behinds the murders in a very brief way. Since John was murdering 70 years ago, I understand they didn't really investigate much into why he killed people, but his entire story was just summed up so briefly.

The second half of the book was nothing more than advertising the authors other books, which rather made me want to give this book a one star rating as that seems extremely cheap, to say the least.