Rating: 100% | A+ | ★★★★★
Warnings: + Violence Synopsis (from Goodreads): Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last—inexorably—into evil. Spoiler-Free Review: I feel strangely indebted to this book. The Secret History ignited in me a nostalgic euphoria I have not felt since I was ten years old and ripping my way through each year's new Riordan book. It has been a long time, longer than I would have liked, since I have been completely whisked away by a story. In comparison to other five-star reads, The Secret History is a self-contained epic whose characters are fiercely themselves. Therefore, the ache at the end of the story is simple—it is the ache of leaving a good story. The book is viciously propulsive. There are only eight chapters, a prologue, and an epilogue dividing 599 pages, yet never is the story lugubrious or exhausting. Tartt writes like no other author I've met thus far—rich, gorgeous sentences woven into a thick tapestry of bubbling emotions. I could read The Secret History a dozen times and still find new stones to turn over, with my ultimate fate remaining the same—utter devastation. (Click "Read More" for spoilers.)
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