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houstonkp 's review for:

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
4.0

If Pale Fire and Middlemarch had a baby, I think it would be something close to The Luminaries. Like a lot of the other reviewers, I approached this with more of a 'summer read' mentality which have left me ignorant of some of the more intricate structures (on the other hand, I'm never going to care about astrological charts).

I enjoyed the slow unveiling of the mystery, and the repetitive nature of the chapters was actually helpful in terms of keeping track of all the characters and their intertwining plots.