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And He Shall Appear by Kate van der Borgh
3.0
Likened to the Secret History, An He Shall Appear follows an unnamed narrator as he arrives at Cambridge University to study Music. With a working class background, He finds it difficult to assimilate with his classmates until he meets Bryn Cavendish, an enigmatic magician.
It was an interesting read but the execution was not for me. We move from his days at Cambridge to the present where is has returned to the University. The lines blur between truth and imagination, as he becomes more and more unreliable. Overall, I thought it was going well until the end which I can't talk about without spoiling the book. But it didn't quite fit to what had been building from the previous chapters. I did like Tim as a character but everyone else was forgettable.
Thank you to 4th Estate and William Collins | Fourth Estate for the ARC in exchange for the honest review.
It was an interesting read but the execution was not for me. We move from his days at Cambridge to the present where is has returned to the University. The lines blur between truth and imagination, as he becomes more and more unreliable. Overall, I thought it was going well until the end which I can't talk about without spoiling the book. But it didn't quite fit to what had been building from the previous chapters. I did like Tim as a character but everyone else was forgettable.
Thank you to 4th Estate and William Collins | Fourth Estate for the ARC in exchange for the honest review.