Title: City on Fire
Author: Garth Risk Hallberg
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Summary: Manhattan, 1976. Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney are estranged siblings and heirs to one of the city's great fortunes. Keith and Mercer are the mean who love Regan and William. Charlie and Samantha are two suburban teenagers enthralled with the up and coming Manhattan punk scene. Then there's the magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbor. Finally, the detective that's trying to figure out the link between all of them and what they have to do with a shooting on New Year's Eve.
Review: This book is too freaking long (944 pages). This book needed a better editor. It just too long to develop and get all of the various back stories and everything jumped back and forth in time. The characters were interesting enough, everything was dragged out too long. Eventually I was so far in that I had put in the time, I might as well see it through, but save yourself and don't bother.
Time to write: 1:40
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