Published: 15, September 2015
Author: Lauren Groff
Genres: Contemporary, Women's, Crime, Fiction, Romance, Literary, Coming Of Age, Family Life, Domestic Life, Adult
First and foremost, author Lauren Groff is a talented writer. The story is well-written and well-considered. The story revolves around marriage, with the first half told by the husband and the second half by the wife. Their viewpoints are so dissimilar that it feels like two separate books. However, it's an intriguing concept that's eye-opening where their stories intersect. The plot has a few twists and turns that will surprise you, but nothing that will take your breath away.
In her first two novels, The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, Lauren Groff addressed the benefits of community. This time she focuses on the ultimate microcosm, a marriage as I mentioned earlier.
Many readers are surely going to hate this book, not because the writing is flawed or the story is bad, no, no and no, it is just because of the characters in the story, they are narcissistic, dysfunctional, and shallow, with no purpose or goal. As a reader, you are exposed to their early damage, which I assume is intended to set the tone for future conduct. You just want to hate them and that is why you feel that you hate this book, otherwise, this is an amazing novel.
The story tells us something that many of us don’t even want to think but it is so true and close to our reality. It can be a very good read and sometimes you may feel it is very difficult to continue reading. Some characters were just in the book for no reason at all like some of the “friends” and you can feel they are just “fillers.”
I think the ending is what I needed to read at the end of this story and I liked it a lot. Just think of this book as two books in one with an ending where it all comes as one. Sometimes we don’t get what the writer is trying to say and in this book, you are dealing with the same issue. The classic stuff is in front of the reader’s eyes but it looks strange and out of place but if you open your mind and give it a try, you’ll be shocked to see what the author did, and that is why it became a best seller.
Synopsis:
“NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, AND MANY MORE
“Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and Fates and Furies is an unabashedly ambitious novel that delivers – with comedy, tragedy, well-deployed erudition and unmistakable glimmers of brilliance throughout.” —The New York Times Book Review (cover review)
From the award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Florida and Matrix, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception.
Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation.
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years.
At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. Profound, surprising, propulsive, and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart.”
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Rating: 75/100
Recommended: 90/100 Yes.
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