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In the Woods

Tana French

Start date: March 31, 2014

Finish date: March 31, 2014

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Jun 16, 2013 Heather rated it it was amazing

Shelves: book-group, pageturners, read-2014, read-2015

If the measure of a writer is her ability to inspire belief in her characters, then I think Tana French is pretty darn brilliant.

I started the book with a bit of skepticism and impatience since I don't normally enjoy murder mysteries, but I'd been told that this series was unusual, and amazing; I should give it a shot. And for the first hundred pages or so it was pretty slow going - the writing was nice, but I didn't feel very attached to the story. However, imperceptibly, I began to think of R ...more

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Sep 12, 2016 The Lady Anna rated it really liked it

Shelves: audio-read, fiction, crime, overdue-podcast-episode

Ending was a little lame. Resolved one issue but not the other. The writing is decent enough that I'll read the second one. At times it's a page turner but it could have cut a whole lot out. ...more

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Jul 14, 2016 Sarah rated it really liked it

Shelves: contemporary-fiction, mystery

I get it- some of you out there in readerdom were seriously annoyed by this book and on some level I agree. However, it's been a long time since I found a book this hard to put down. Admittedly, I am a sucker for a good murder mystery and the psychological components were fascinating to me as well- so there's that. But the main thing is that by the end of this book the author somehow was able to write in such a way that kept me from feeling any kind of a let down. Possibly I'm holding on to the ...more

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