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A review by lian_tanner
Folly by Laurie R. King
5.0
This book pairs with 'Keeping Watch', and I've just reread both of them. I think King does some of her best writing in these two books. They're not easy reads - she's dealing with mental illness and trauma and loss and recovery, but they are deeply affecting.
'Folly' is deceptively slow. A lot of the book is about the physical rebuilding of a house, but I don't think there was a single point where I grew impatient or bored, though I have little interest in building. The thing is, King makes it interesting, makes it all part of what's happening. And that slow ratcheting up of tension, as you realise there is far more going on than you thought, is masterful. This is a book I'll come back to again and again, as are 'Keeping Watch' and the first three in the Mary Russell series.
'Folly' is deceptively slow. A lot of the book is about the physical rebuilding of a house, but I don't think there was a single point where I grew impatient or bored, though I have little interest in building. The thing is, King makes it interesting, makes it all part of what's happening. And that slow ratcheting up of tension, as you realise there is far more going on than you thought, is masterful. This is a book I'll come back to again and again, as are 'Keeping Watch' and the first three in the Mary Russell series.