3 Review(s)

ReviewThe Secret History succeeds magnificently ... A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment ... Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled ? New York TimesSo irresistible and seductive it's almost a guilty pleasure ? GuardianA huge, mesmerizing, galloping read ? Vanity FairDonna Tartt is an amazingly good writer. She's dense, she's allusive. She's a gorgeous storyteller -- Stephen KingTakes my breath away -- Ruth RendellBrilliant and compulsive ? Evening StandardA 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 ? The Times