r/TheSecretHistory

Hello 🫶

Great book so far, but every single person in the book is such a cunt they all annoy and I hate the fact that the murders are so romanticized. Bunny deserved better he's my favorite(come back love please), Henry doesn't love Camilla she is his greek heroine or whatever he loves the aesthetic and the idea of her it's so weird to me when people say they loved each other i mean maybe she loved him later after he dies(I spoiled that for myself) but in the beginning she didn't she just wanted to escape Charles. He killed himself cause he wanted his greek tragedy like wtf. Richard is so UGH i can't this whole book is making me upset lmao Camilla is annoying Henry was my husband but now at best he can be a situationship for one semester but he's such an evil pig omg and Francis is there. Julian rots he's old. Judy Poovey and Cloke can have their asses eaten by these greek bitches Judy rocks 🎀👸 Edmund Bunny Corcoran you deserved so much better those bitches don't get anything they can die.

That's it i'm in a frenzy and my feels jupi i love you all and take care 🩷🐇

Haven’t thought about this before but Julian is super picky with his Greek students (such an oddball) but somehow every one he chose (possibly minus Bunny) was almost perfectly okay with the murder of not one but two innocent people. What about his requirements for his class managed to allow this group to form? I’m almost impressed. Especially considering Julian, though a little weird, seems to be so kind and empathetic and i feel he would be appalled at what they all did. But who knows. Donna Tartt loves to write about characters that put up a front.

I know everyone talks about the murder, the Greek class, and the dark academia aesthetic, but the section where they all stay at Francis's aunt's country house has become one of my favourite pieces of writing ever.

It's the lake, the long summer afternoons, reading, swimming, drinking wine, lying in the sun, and feeling completely removed from ordinary life. There's something almost heavenly about it. Whenever I'm stressed I find myself rereading that chapter just to relax.

I'm not necessarily looking for another dark academia novel. I'm looking for books that capture that feeling: an idyllic country estate, beautiful nature, close friends, lazy summer days, and the sense of existing in a little world outside time.

Has anyone found anything that scratches the same itch?

I just aways had trouble really picturing the scene

Even though Ive spent significant time IN actual Vermont

Just wondering, as it was recommended to me in a discussion about TSH.

I just finished the book. It has left me with weird feelings. It was one of the best reads though. I have a few questions:

1. Why was Bunny behaving so absurd. Was he just jealous that they didn't inform him about the bacchanal and felt left out. If so, then why did he insult Richard too as he did to others. And Richard didn't fight back on his remarks either. Others didn't say him anything cuz they were merely tolerating him but bunny was oblivious of the fact that Richard too was aware of the murder.

2. Did Henry kill himself cuz he wanted to show courage but isn't it totally opposite of his character as he is regarded as intellectual and brave, and as someone who can get away with anything.Did he think that suicide was the only option to get rid off the Charles' fiasco.

I read TSH around a year ago and recently got to thinking about it again and I couldn’t remember when Bunny wrote the letter to Julian. I know it was on stationary from the hotel in Italy, but did he write it in Italy? Or did he bring the stationary back with him and write it later?
I think the latter would make more sense, but it’s a bit weird to bring home hotel stationary lol