The Secret History
The Secret History is about a group of college students who end up murdering their friend named Bunny. Within the prologue it is very apparent that it was them; Henry, Francis, Charles, Richard, and Camille, who killed Bunny. So since there's a lack of mystery about who did it, the story appears to be Richard's attempt to justify the murder. However, since Richard Papen conveys all of the murderers, including himself, in a positive light throughout most of the story, he is considered an unreliable narrator. Who's to say whether these people were far more wicked than Richard made them out to be. Or if Richard himself did more or less damage than he let on
The plot was interesting though at times it was a little bit too slow. The element I loved the most was Donna Tartt's ability to express the thoughts of Richard Papen, it was fascinating. Her descriptions were well thought out and advanced the plot. When the story got slow, it gave me time to think about the implications of what just happened and chew on the new pieces of information. Though this book is only 560 pages, it is incredibility dense. This isn't the type of book one should rush, so if you have two years to spare... joking. In all honesty, it was a good book because it was thought provoking, but I personally didn't love how long it was. I think it was long because the emphasis on other background characters, which I thought was a little unnecessary.
As I mentioned before the syntax was excellent, because of that, many of the quotes are long. Instead of typing them all out on here, I'll just leave them marked in the book. But here are a few sorter ones.