A review by doesemilyread
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

4.0

“Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.” ⁣

It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes.