2020/130: The Betrayals -- Bridget Collins

2020/130: The Betrayals -- Bridget Collins

A grand jeu is a kind of web made of abstractions. It glitters, it seduces; but its beauty is essentially functional ... and its aim is to draw down the divine into a human trap. [loc. 2302]

The Binding, Bridget Collins' first novel for adults, was one of my reading highlights of 2019, so I was eager to read her new novel (thanks to NetGalley for the advance reading copy, of which this is an honest review).( spoilers )

Guardian review "Not all the intricate twists of the tale quite hold up, with [characters] making choices that stretch credulity, if you think about them too much. It’s best not to." A view that is at once accurate and irritating.