A review by catdad77a45
The Spell, by Alan Hollinghurst

4.0

Although to my mind Hollinghurst CAN'T write a truly bad book, this does not live up to the sheer brilliance of the other three of his I have read... it just didn't have the compulsive forward thrust that keeps one really interested. Am not sure exactly why that should be: the prose is gorgeous as always, and the characters are varied and for the most part interesting. But this short book took me longer to read than his magnum opus, The Line of Beauty, so something didn't quite click.