Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks

Didn't finish
10.09.15

This started out promisingly, with vivid descriptions and a feisty-yet-historically convincing heroine, but it soon became flabby and dull. I read about half of it but, when I realised I couldn't go to the reading group meeting that would discuss it, I didn't see the point in battling on.

Engleby - Sebastian Faulks

69%
15.07.08

Someone lent me this - I would never have chosen to read it - but it turned out to be one of the best novels I've read for a long time. A compelling, psychopathic, unreliable narrator, a carefully constucted examination of perception, interpretation and the nature of truth and reality. Some annoying anachronisms, and a disappointingly self-reflective ending, but generally a great read on many levels.