The Secret History

[read 24/09/24] Genuinely exquisite prose! Tartt sets the most enchanting scene.

Unfortunately I found that the characters, with the exception of Bunny and towards the end of the novel Henry, were rather bland. An element of this comes from Papen's bias (downright blindness!) as narrator, sure. But in a novel this wordy, with characters this far on the side of the melodramatic, it never came together in such a way that the uniformity seemed intentional.

I did like this book overall, and I am looking forward to reading The Goldfinch.