Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil. The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet - unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss.
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Very torn because it’s beautifully and interestingly written but almost for no reason because it goes no where. I struggle to give it the same rating as the Goldfinch because I think that it wasn’t as good but at the same times it’s still not bad enough a book for only two stars. It has similar flaws being overly draw out but with even less pay off at the end.
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