It was all Greek to me!! The book has a lot of content related to Ancient Greek as its story revolves around six students pursuing the same. The narrator is a scholarship secured, a working-class boy who tries to fit in with a group of five other better-off, pretentious students. The story begins with the murder of one of the six students and the whole book is woven around the how and why the murder took place and the effects of the murder on the other students. Parts of it felt like Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky), where Rodion goes through a mental trauma due to the murders he commits. What is the atonement?
Right at the beginning we are told that Bunny/Edmund is murdered. I liked this character. He was irritating, but he was affected by some traumatic events. His upbringing was flawed. He had issues and if one looks at it from a psychological aspect, one feels bad for this character.
The book talks about the university life of students, classicism, cult, drugs, alcohol, relationships, murder, lifestyle, influence, peer pressure, and much more.
How much would you delve into a subject to understand it? How much would you read, to say that you are well-read? Where does one draw a line? To dive into unchartered territories of water to experience what someone else felt is foolishness. Do parents completely cut off ties with their children once they are at a university?
University is where one blossoms into a wholesome personality. Though purely academics, one gets wordly-wise too - both ways, one learns. But taking anything to extremes is what puts students at risk. Under peer pressure or to show off, some students can take extreme steps, unaware of the repercussions it might have on themselves or others. Highly mouldable, flexible, impressionable, a stage where opinions and ideologies are inbuilt for a lifetime.  

A quote By Milton is quoted in the book: ‘THE MIND IS ITS OWN PLACE AND IN ITSELF CAN MAKE A HEAVEN OF HELL AND SO FORTH,’ can summarise the book to a large extent.

Though the book is brilliantly written, the characters are beautifully developed, but the storyline is stretched out and can get boring in some parts. Some events have been described too vividly which I felt did not have any relevance. The Greek grammar part went way above my head.
Many have expressed their admiration for this book, I am not sure of what I feel, it's dark and the theme is probably not close to my heart, hence I am unable to rate this book.