Shannon
Hillsborough
A review of this — 15 weeks ago
NOT WORTH CONSUMING
I was fairly disappointed in this novel, particularly because I enjoyed Tartt’s first novel, The Secret History, so much. The book opens with the horrific murder of a little boy in his own front yard, then picks up 12 years later, following his younger sister through a summer in a small Mississippi town. Despite some really interesting scenes – all of them involving gruesome encounters with snakes, coincidentally enough – the story never really finds its center, and the ending is both abrupt and unsatisfying.
