The Secret History
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Students, Henry, Francis, Bunny, Richard, and the aptly named Charles & Camilla. Six of the most unlikable, snobbish, entitled bunch of ****S ever to grace the page. An accidental murder during a trance fuelled rampage sends the group into a downward spiral of lies and paranoia, and when one of the group threatens to go rogue, there is only one course of action the rest of the group can take to keep their secret safe.
So, this was very good. It did drag on in a couple of places (the funeral part was especially squidgy), and I wasn’t sure I needed to know how some of the minor characters’ lives turned out when I got the epilogue at the end. The 2nd part is finitely more readable than the first and I did take a perverse pleasure seeing the lives of these entitled *******S fall apart. This probably means I am also a ***t.
My niece thinks that this is the greatest book ever written. I think it’s just about as good as The Little Friend and I gave that 4 stars so 4 it is.
Students, Henry, Francis, Bunny, Richard, and the aptly named Charles & Camilla. Six of the most unlikable, snobbish, entitled bunch of ****S ever to grace the page. An accidental murder during a trance fuelled rampage sends the group into a downward spiral of lies and paranoia, and when one of the group threatens to go rogue, there is only one course of action the rest of the group can take to keep their secret safe.
So, this was very good. It did drag on in a couple of places (the funeral part was especially squidgy), and I wasn’t sure I needed to know how some of the minor characters’ lives turned out when I got the epilogue at the end. The 2nd part is finitely more readable than the first and I did take a perverse pleasure seeing the lives of these entitled *******S fall apart. This probably means I am also a ***t.
My niece thinks that this is the greatest book ever written. I think it’s just about as good as The Little Friend and I gave that 4 stars so 4 it is.
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