kiramke 's review for:

The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
4.75
challenging emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated

Immediately tense and sort of sinister, in an immersive and surface calm sort of way.  Fantastic writing and a very compelling story that could so easily be trite or melodramatic based on themes; or overwritten in an unusual structure that instead drives the story-telling.  I enjoyed this more than the Luminaries in that I thought it was more, mmm, comfortable with its own structure.