A review by ellejaoy
Wicked Children: Murderous Tales from History by Karen Maitland

2.0

A glorified advertisement for her own novels coupled with a snippet of the research she did for them. This book included one rather short (5-10minutes tops of reading) chapter of interest in which we hear some stories of children who kill (with the odd novel name drop advertising her own work). Then we get 2 chapters of 10 poisons and 10 antidotes. Then we get two sample chapters that seem to be not even the first chapter but ones half way through the books.

Utterly useless and misleading book with so much promise in that first interesting chapter.

ALSO: I want a source for that Sunday Telegraph quote because it's generally laughable that they even read this never mind reviewed it. It's not even a proper novella.