5/5
If it's not already clear, I absolutely love Kate Morton. Although this is her debut novel, it’s the third book of hers I’ve read (I read the Secret Keeper first a few years ago and then The Lake House in 2020). The House at Riverton did not disappoint!
I love Morton’s style of writing, case in point, this perfect and poignant description of what it’s like to be part of a trio:
"Rule number three: only three may play. No more, no less. Three. A number favored as much by art as by science: primary colors, points required to locate an object in space, notes to form a musical chord. Three points of a triangle, the first geometrical figure. Incontrovertible fact: two straight lines cannot enclose a space. The points of a triangle may move, shift allegiance, the distance between two disappear as they draw away from the third, but together they always define a triangle. Self-contained, real, complete."
Also the theme of three and the callback to this passage later in the book is SO CLEVER.
Grace was such an interesting narrator, and all the characters were well-rounded. Hannah’s change and growth was especially well done. The plot and all the twists kept me thoroughly enthralled, even though I was able to guess at a few of the twists. The House at Riverton is so far the most emotional (to me) of Morton’s books that I’ve read. I literally sobbed for most of the last twenty pages.
A tragic, beautiful story that will keep you captivated all the way through.
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