The Secret History in ✦ The Library at the End of the World ✦

Jul 22, 2023 kaylee ♡ rated it it was amazing

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5★

“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”

!!spoilers ahead!!

I don’t think I have ever read a book as conflicting and tantalizing as this one. Donna Tartt is quite literally a mastermind.

I'm going to start this lengthy review (it's my longest on Goodreads thus far) by saying that I wasn't even sure if I was going to write it in the first place. As other reviewers have rightly point ...more

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Apr 08, 2022 viciousbibs rated it it was ok · review of another edition

2.5⭐️??
Im so sad i really though i would like this book
I liked the story(kinda) and the writing but the execution was not it for me. The book dragged on for SO LONG and i had no motivation to read it.
I feel like it would’ve been so much better if it was like 300 pages.
Its 620 pages and literally 3 significant events happen😭😭😭

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Apr 24, 2022 liberty rated it it was amazing

Shelves: dark-academia, favourties, five-stars

Donna Tartt I will never forgive for that ending.

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Jan 16, 2022 Carla rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Tengo mucho que decir de este libro, no porque no me gustara sino todo lo contrario. Me encantó, me fascinó, me maravilló.
Para empezar tardé mucho leyéndolo porque considero que tiene un lenguaje elevado. No les miento si les digo que aprendí más de treinta palabras nuevas que jamás había escuchado.

Cosas que me gustaron:
1. La cultura griega: me enamoré de su filosofía, su historia, su cultura, sus ritos, su idioma (el cual quiero aprender gracias a este libro). Es que, de verdad, hablar en grie ...more

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