The Secret History

My husband has been recommending this to me for ages, and I finally got around to reading it. Tartt's writing is beautiful and vivid, literary without being pretentious. The story itself challenged me to look at it from so many different levels, and I found my opinions of characters and the terrible things they do shifting from chapter to chapter, even page to page. This is a story about consequences, and about people used to living consequence free suddenly crossing line after line. It's about privilege, perspective, and possibly too effective Dionysian rituals. Highly recommended to anyone who loves a murder mystery where the murder itself is not the mystery.