Some Danger Involved

This book is serviceable, but there's something very bland about the writing style that doesn't grip me quite as much. Not to mention, it's set in gritty Victorian London and really does not filter some of the incredibly abrasive and problematic views in those times, touching upon subjects like anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and racism. It seems like almost all the non-Jewish subjects that Barker and Llewelyn interview have some incredibly controversial opinion to air, and then B&L will just sort of follow up with a “he's crazy!” sort of thing (and not even to these subjects' faces) so us readers will know we can support our protagonists. I don't know, it just felt a bit too repetitive to me in the end. I stopped at about the 50% mark of the book and even at this point, I couldn't find myself invested in the central conflict in the book: the anti-Semitic movement that B&L are trying to combat. It's not that I don't care, but it just wasn't written in a way that I felt very invested in or that I found productive.

So, eh.