A review by kmsourada
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Recommendation: do not preview reviews (or consider that this book was Obama's favorite book of 2015) - go in blind - resist the urge to engage adjectives that might dissuade or set-up expectations.

What captured me - in the undertow:

• Groff's writing style, prose, and pacing are unexpected and (for this reader) exquisite in execution of nonconformity. Words that come to mind: visceral, poetic, evocative.
• Development throughout this book regarding love and marriage as complicated, transformative, and,...how it can deceive us over time. Myth and marriage.
• The notion of two sides to every story was written at a level I had not experienced in other books (think "Gone Girl"). But in this case more complicated.
• The use of mythology was so clever; including how Groff inserts herself with the use of [ ]; a nod to the omniscient Greek chorus.
  
  What a trip - Mathilde, I will never forget you.