Hello! I hope you’re all having a great Wednesday! Today I’m going to be reviewing Lauren Groff’s novel Fates and Furies.
Fates and Furies
Fates and Furies by: Lauren Groff: Lotto and Mathilde meet at the end of college and it seems the rest is history; they get married right away and what comes is twenty-four years of marriage and where that takes them. It definitely took the reader for a trip because what a roller coaster of a novel this was. Lotto becomes a genius playwright and Mathilde his devoted wife, and the plot sticks with their marriage dynamic. At first the reader felt turned off as we are dropped in the middle of all the madness, although it really is only the beginning, and there are so many characters to wade through. But sail past that and the reader gets to the meat and potatoes of this holy matrimony and you’re left losing all sense of time, totally engrossed. Groff’s two main characters are these people with extraordinary lives and the reader can’t seem to figure out which life is more entertaining, as Groff hits her readers with blow after blow of plot twists that come out of nowhere. The whole marriage and secrets theme was beautiful and completely ironic. The writing was amazing, her prose was sophisticated and that was refreshing to read instead of the same words that are overly used, Groff gave her readers something a little different to read.
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