jenb

I gave up, having only read about 15 books in 2005. Sigh.

I don’t feel like writing a review of this book at the moment, but go out and read it! It’s a book that makes me want to read everything this author has ever written. Incredibly clever story of academics and their eccentricities, gypsies, lost manuscripts, sexual deviance, murder, angels and devils, and a really intelligent female protagonist. If you’re smart and you know it, and you ain’t afraid to show it, this is the book for you.

This book is great for a brainy beach read. A series of events that take place shortly after the Restoration of Charles II in Oxford, England are told from the perspective of four different people. Not surprisingly, they all have a very different take on it. A very clever use of the unreliable narrator tactic, and the well-researched details are superb.