By: James Ellroy
We have all wanted to be famous, more so with the ever so popular reality television. But with up and coming fame come very serious consequences, and this eerie novel explores just that. With fame comes sorrow and, sometimes that of the families and an unsuspecting person.
The story of The Black Dahlia is one that is suspenseful and
sad. One that is both eerie and creepy. These factors makes for an amazing
story that is true that makes the reader always on edge as to what will
happened next. The Black Dahlia is considered to be a noir era book, meaning a
book with a theme of crime with three categories; cynicism, fatalism, and
ambiguity. This book is amazing with exploring fatalism and ambiguity.
The Black Dahlia is an up and coming actress by the name of
Elizabeth Short. Narrated by an LAPD officer by the name of Dwight, who is a
family man, and former boxer. On January 15, 1947 a body of a young woman is
found in an abandoned lot. Her mouth was cut wide open and her body cut in
half. The body is soon to be identified as that of Elizabeth Short, a new and
upcoming Hollywood actress. The media and press would soon dub this crime “The
Black Dahlia Murder”, and it immediately becomes a sensation across the nation
as to who did this. This murder is similar to that of one that happened to the
Districts Attorneys sister years earlier. Soon the NYPD officer who is the
narrator becomes obsessed with the murder and it consumes his life. He starts
to form an identity for Short based on a woman he meets who looks similar to
her who is a rich and spoiled up and coming actress. But, what happens when he
is all but wrong about the woman dubbed The Black Dahlia?
PROS: This book is full of suspense, as well as true facts
of a murder that happened in the 1940s. It is an easy read and any young adult
would be able to read this book.
CONS: This book deals with a very tragic story of a person
who is a young adult. It also deals with could happen to anyone who is trying
to work toward their dream.
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