A review by mmlk
The Secret History by Donna Tartt

2.0

I DNF’d and then came back to it and I should’ve let it lie. The first half of the book is a snooze fest. I don’t care about the Greekness of it all and we could’ve just been told they were in that class and moved on. This is such a long book for no reason, the vulgarness was hard to get passed, and the incest addition is so strange. I will say all those details really sold how fucked up everyone in this group was. Their nonchalant talk of death and murder, their weird ass rituals in the woods and even the casual sexualness between everyone in the group (relatives included) made me feel as if I was like stepping into a cult and a lot of it made me feel very uncomfortable. When they finally got to the murder part it got more digestible, I liked seeing how everyone handled it but then it KEPT GOING.. for way longer than necessary. I will say the end did shock me. I would not recommend this book and I’d say just read a summary if you’re curious