Detail-oriented and well researched, but not for me

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"The Darkest Glare" is an obscure true crime story. It begins with Richard Kasparov and Jerry Scneiderman, who created a space planning firm called Space Matters. They then partner up with another guy named Howard Garrett. Long story short, Kasparov steals from them and from there, Garrett sues and then plans a series of assassination attempts on Kasparov.

I didn't exactly finish this one. I read approximately 1/5 of it before skimming the rest. I'm writing this review because I did sink around 2 hours of reading time into this book, so here are my 2 cents.

I lost interest in the narrative but more than that I got tired of the writing. Chip Jacobs certainly adds a lot of personality to the story, which is apparent in the first chapter and fine to start with, but it got to be a bit much. There were parts that were detailed to the point of overwriting (e.g. describing a person's physical appearance for an entire long paragraph), and there was so much extraneous detail packed into it.

I'd recommend this book if it sounds interesting and you like the writing style.

*read via NetGalley