My skin feels like it’s buzzing and purring after having finished this book. Groff’s writing is very often quite breathtaking at the sentence level, so much so that I was occasionally forgetting to notice how masterfully she was setting up an intricate and many-layered plot. Lotto, Mathilde, and the other characters jump off the page so vividly, it’s hard for me to imagine they aren’t really out there, living their fierce and complicated lives. Five stars.
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff, (List Price: $18, Riverhead Books, 9781594634482, September 2016)
Reviewed by Janet Geddis, Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia