A review by martynahanna
Possession by A.S. Byatt

3.0

Last Bookclub read for the year. I won’t lie - I suffered through it a lot, especially the letter parts. You may say that life’s too short to read books that you don’t enjoy, but I am stubborn and wanted to understand what the Booker fuss was all about. I sort of get it? Byatt has constructed a complex and entirely fictional world involving academia and writers that both glorifies and is a caricature of the world that she so well knew. Plus the mystery, romance and intrigue all mixed into one make it a very eclectic piece of writing that almost traverses genres. So yeah, a solid 3 for effort, although my Bookclub mates would strongly disagree.