I'm conflicted about this book. Have you ever finished a book and thought, "I'm not sure I'm glad I read that..."? That's how I was after reading this and I eventually decided to throw it in the donation bin. The thing about this book is that there a quite a few topics approached that I was really uncomfortable with. Oddly enough, SPOILER ALERT, murder wasn't one of them. But, you know, incest was. Here's what I wrote to my friend after I had finished and he asked me my thoughts:

"It was a sad story with no hope of a happy ending. Didn't know that till about half way through though and at that point there was no going back, I was sucked in. But some beautiful ideas, some stunning paragraphs and sentences that were thrown so casually in and without warning that you just kept reading, hoping you'd be blindsided by another one."

This book had all the makings of a book I would really love. Bit of a thriller, Greek mythology and history, beautiful language, academia. But sadly, also the sex, drugs, alcohol and other such nonsense of the stereotypical college experience, although these characters' experience was everything but stereotypical.

p.s. Personally? Wouldn't recommend it.