A review by aztlan
The Secret History by Donna Tartt

How does so much happen yet I felt so utterly disinterested? I was intrigued at the start and I kept listening because I wanted to know how events unfolded, but there was so much time spent on fairly mundane things and I just didn't care that much. At the point I finished, I didn't feel like picking up the book again, so I just read the synopsis and that was enough for me. It's not actually a bad book, it's just that literary fiction is not my usual genre and it was too long for me to subsist on vibes.
It also didn't help that there was a lot of slurs in this book. They made sense in context (the cast consists of young, privileged white men in their own little bubble) but it still did not make it any more enjoyable to read.
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