I did not like this book!!!! It was not good!!

People need to stop comparing it to The Secret History because not only is that blasphemy imo, but it actually set this book up to fail because literally no one on the face of the earth can compare with Donna Tartt, least of all this VERY AVERAGE AND BORING BOOK.

It took me six weeks to read this thing. SIX WEEKS of agonising over having to pick it back up again and only doing so because "surely it's going to get better, everyone keeps saying it's basically the same as The Secret History so there's gotta be more to it." 

It did not get better!

In fact, it got worse!!

This books reads like a novice writer trying to be Donna Tartt and failing miserably. The cover boasts a "richly layered story" but I'm sorry, where?? This was an extremely shallow, very much single-layered story that clearly ripped off the plot of The Secret History and had some of the most shockingly underdeveloped characters I've ever read. 

The back of the book has a quote from some woman names Miranda Beverly-Whittemore whose work I'll certainly never read because she says "whip-smart, chilling tale, a page-turning literary thriller whose final, shocking twist you won't forget."

BITCH, WHERE?! Where is the shocking twist?? Is the twist in the room with us??

This book only makes me so mad because it is so hyped up and yet, so, so unbelievably lame and boring my god.

Anyone who says it's like The Secret History clearly has never read The Secret History.

This is like "We have The Secret History at home". UGH MAKE IT STOP