I have a paragraph left, but I'm absolutely okay reviewing Fates and Furies without finishing it completely. This story of the marriage of Lotto and Mathilde was mostly....wildly over the top, yet also realistic in that it captured the sheer amount of compromise relationships require.
The story is told in two parts. Lotto gets the first crack. He is a mess of a person: entitled, privileged, for the most part buffeted from consequences. His long suffering wife manages everything for him and in fact infantilizes him to a certain extent (and is accused of same). There is the occasional foreshadowing of the tale she will tell.
The second half is Mathilde's story which shows her to be vengeful, and difficult and malignant. You get the sense that she lived a lie of omission for so long.
People will compare this to Gone Girl, which I hated, but I think it's more unsettling and interesting. The writing itself is clever. The relationship is almost Shakespearean (think Macbeth) or mythic.
I enjoyed it.
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