This is an achingly beautiful book. A bit slow and tedious at times due to the Herculean amount of character development, but worth it. I made the mistake of abandoning it a third of the way through and giving my copy to someone else, wasn’t in the right headspace for it. Saw it on sale at Target the other day and decided to pick it back up. Wow am I glad I did. I read the rest in two days and will never be the same. Donna Tartt is such a master of language and storytelling. She showcases her intellectual prowess in this book, running circles around both scholars and contemporary authors, and masterfully crafting the very Greek tragedy her characters so arduously study. Just really brilliant writing. I hope this book is taught to in schools in 100 years. It’s a classic in the making, dark academia at its most sophisticated.

I am a little bit disappointed by this book. The characters were well fleshed out and had a good degree of nuances to them. They were introduced in the first quarter of the book where Tartt outlines small daily interactions that add wit and personality to them, which was good but got quite slow after a while. The elitist, classist, egocentric nature of the characters may be too pretentious for some but it is part of a key idea in the book: the dangers of romanticising classics.
If you like dark academia you might enjoy this book for the vibes, characters and ideas rather than the plot which lacked mystery or complexity; basically a third of the plot development was from the main character being intoxicated, falling asleep and being woken up by someone at his door for the millionth time 💀

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