Fates and Furies

"Let me be the wave. And if I cannot be the wave, let me be the rupture at the bottom. Let me be the terrible first rift in the dark."

 Lauren Groff

Fates and Furies

Ever once in a while you read a novel that makes you fall so in love with the characters and takes you so by surprise that you find yourself thinking about it constantly for days after you've read it. Fates and Furies is one of these novels. Beautiful prose, fantastic storytelling, and one of the most interesting characters I have ever found in a book. Lauren Groff's writing style is fantastic, beautiful and absolutely unique. I've never read anyone who strings sentences together in such a wonderful way.

The story follows the lives of Lotto and Mathilde, two beautiful people who are madly in love with each other. The book follows the twenty-four years of their marriage through both of their perspectives. The result is a magnificent commentary on marriage, art, love, power, and how we perceive people. How we can know and not know a person.  

I loved this book. It builds beautifully, throwing in a twist that I did not see coming at the end. The characters were fantastically complex, and extremely relateable. The prose was beautiful, and the story structure was fantastically crafted, jumping forward and backwards in time.

 I highly recommend this book for everyone. Everyone.