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The Cloisters: A Novel
The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel following a circle of researchers as they uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York’s famed Met Cloisters.In the end, was it fate that decided what happened to these characters or the choices they made?
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loved this book. The vibes, the descriptions, and the ending :) As a museum educator, I fell right into this world
This debut novel does a great job of showing the angst of breaking into academia, as well as exploring the experience of grief. Ann is our protagonist and after graduating from college the year her beloved father died, is trying to get away from the home that is increasingly claustrophobic. She finds a summer internship that eventually becomes a placement at the Cloisters, a sister museum to the Met. The people she meets and the incidences of the...read more
My favorite part of this novel is the setting. You can tell the author researched The Cloisters and the city very well. The Cloisters are by far my favorite museum in NYC so that is what originally caught my attention about this book. I love that the author did it justice, we got robust descriptions of The Cloisters themselves along with getting a really good feel of the atmosphere. Since I was a child I was also really interested in tarot and th...read more
I was disappointed that this book turned out to be more typical domestic thriller than the mystical dark academia it was marketed as.
3.5 Stars...maaaaaybe bump to 4? Great writing. Great storyline, but just wasn't nearly as captivated as I thought I would be.
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