I read all (close to 500 pages) of this book in three days.

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“Highly entertaining… writing is powerful and evocative…A mysterious, richly detailed story told by a talented writer.” “Her writing bewitches us…The Secret History is a wonderfully beguiling book, a journey backward to the fierce and heady friendships of our school days, when all of us believed in our power to conjure up divinity and to be forgiven any sin.” “An accomplished psychological thriller…Absolutely chilling…Tartt has a stunning command of the lyrical.” “A haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction…Packed with literary allusion and told with a sophistication and texture that owes much more to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth.” “A huge, mesmerizing, galloping read, pleasurably devoured…Gorgeously written, relentlessly erudite.”

“Beautifully written, suspenseful from start to finish.” “The Secret History succeeds magnificently…A remarkably powerful novel a ferociously well-paced entertainment…Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” Years later Richard reflects on the lengths they were all willing to go to keep their secret, eventually leading to their epic downfall.' By the light of the full moon, deep in the woods, an ancient Pagan rite was brought to brutal life, which led to a gruesome death. Richard is seduced into their incestious inner circle, and eventually he learns their dark secret. all wealthy, beautiful and highly unapproachable. Through Richard, we find ourselves at an Ivy League college in Vermont, where we meet an elite group of five Greek scholars. loved the systematic unraveling of each character as they process the guilt of that fateful night.

'Tartt's writing style is both seductive and addictive. a secret about an incident in the woods in the dead of night where an ancient rite was brought to brutal life. Yet as Richard was accepted and drawn into their inner circle, he learned a terrifying secret that bound them to one another. Then he arrived at Hampeden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life-in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured, and at first glance, highly unapproachable. Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. In this brilliant novel from Donna Tartt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch, comes a richly textured and hypnotic story of golden youth corrupted by its own moral arrogance.

A remarkably powerful novel.” - The New York Times A December 2022 Read With Jenna Book Club Pick

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