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For years now I've been ranting about how book marketers compare this or that book the The Secret History and I've long suspected that none of them have actually read that book because the comparison is never even close. Here we have a book that matches TSH note-for-note and it's nowhere in the "if you liked" part. Just proves that the marketing people have no idea what they're doing!

Anyway, as I said, this is clearly the work of someone who read Tartt's book and internalized the structure and emotional flow of the book. Intentional hommage or not, this book may appeal strongly to those who have never read the earlier book. For those of us who have, however. . . I would have liked more about the Brythonic holidays and the Dal Riata (not the Clan, the actual kingdom). The ending was incredibly disappointing, with Justus's and Magnus' motivations being so small in reality, and if feels as though Madri's are just glossed over.

eARC provided by publisher via Netgalley.