Koven! reviewed The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
This novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century …
Review of 'The Luminaries' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Stunning prose, in service of a so-so mystery. Catton can invest her characters with so much definition and life with just a few turns of phrase, which kept me going despite the central plot never quite getting out of third gear.