This book has left me disoriented. I feel detached from the real world. I can't grasp what's happening around me. It took me 10 days to finish this book. And over the course of time, I started living with the characters like they are best friends of mine. I felt scared for them when they tried to commit murder and after they did, I didn't want them to get caught. I know it's terrible. but now they have left me, I feel numb and I don't know what to do with my life anymore. To say this book was beautiful, I have to borrow a sentence from Van Gogh to explain the exact version, 'Beauty is terror. we want to be devoured by it, to hide ourselves in that fire which refines us'. The characters were too perfect for their own good and in a way they were fucked up but that's what made this book so close to me. I think I would read anything by Donna Tartt after this. I knew I made that decision long back when I finished The Goldfinch and I still stand by it. She writes fucking beautifully which has the capacity to change me profoundly and crave for chilling darkness more than ever. To say this was good would be a disgrace to its beauty. It was beyond all the praise a mortal could phrase and hence I give in. Go and read to know for yourself. PS. Don't get intimidated by the number of pages. It's totally worth it.