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Antonio Scurati, Anne Milano Appel: M : Son of the Century (Hardcover, 2022, Harper) 3 stars

Slogged through it

3 stars

This book definitely intends to be antifascist, but by essentially making Mussolini the protagonist of the novel (at the very least, centering everything around him) it falls into the trap of trying to make him way too much of a sympathetic character. Between that and the weird use of citations at the ends of chapters that repeat something a character often just said verbatim, I found it to be a bit of a slog.