A review by pixie_d
Viper Wine by Hermione Eyre

5.0

4.5 stars. This is one I found one the "new book" shelf at the library. With a name that sounds like a mash up between Hermione Granger and Jane Eyre, and the possibility that it could have been awful, I was astounded by how good this turned out to be. Wide-ranging, engaging themes, and delightfully drawn characters. The tone and approach in this book was very much like Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, only easier to follow. At first I even wondered if it was Pynchon writing under a pseudonym. I look at the author photo, where she looks like an actress, by which I mean more than half starved, and I wondered about her. Where did all this erudition and mature talent in telling her story come from? Brava.