So just to start this post off guys… This is possibly one of
the best books I’ve read for a LOOOONNNG time and I’m gonna be shouting about
it from the rooftops for quite a while!
I’d seen Youtuber Books and Quills talk about this book and I thought why not buy it,
it sounds kind of interesting and it was part of the Amazon 3 for £10 deal-
even better!
Starting the book I wasn’t completely grabbed by it, maybe
because I wasn’t giving it my full attention or maybe because I’d just read 2
books really quickly and my brain was still lagging behind with the previous
story… but yeah I wasn’t hooked. BUT me being me I couldn’t leave it unread so
I stopped for a while and came back to it and that’s where the fun started.
What I loved so much about it was the mystery, the
simplicity, the presence of the forgotten past in the lives of these
beautifully developed characters and by the end of the book I wanted to start
reading Classical Greek literature as well as feeling like I’d made a bunch of
new friends. The depth that Tartt goes
into with her characters is perfection and every event, sentence and word is
hand-picked to be just right. As well as
this, it’s lyrical, visual and ultimately transports you to the story so you feel
you’re experiencing it alongside the characters.
Yes the story line is mysterious and has its ups and downs
but don’t go into the book expecting anything big or flashy because you’ll be
disappointed. It’s rooted in real life emotions and is very relatable to the
lives of college (university) students, like myself.
The several twists that Tarr threw my way kept me hooked and
statements like ‘No way!’ or ‘I wouldn’t have thought that’ regularly escaped
my lips.
I’ll definitely be reading it again, once I’ve passed it
around everyone I know.
Let me know what you’re favourite reads are and what you’d
class as you’re favourite recent read?
Enjoy
