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My first book by Tana French was In the Woods (#1) and I loved it for many reasons. I am an Irish (French-German-English) American who loves all things Irish, with the exception of bad drinking analogies. I've never been to Ireland and I am over 50....but I plan to go with relish, someday. I enjoy books that put me in the Irish frame of mind and setting. My other more important reasons for this rating: it's a very exciting, fun and compelling read, it keeps you on the edge until the end, with ma
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I don't have time right now to give this the proper review that it deserves. Short version: it was fantastic, solidly five stars, until the umpteenth time that Cassie felt cold or felt a chill or her neck tingled or chills ran down her back or her blood turned to ice ... You get the picture. Great story, great characters, great atmosphere, great setting, great writing, but a little too much of the suggested magical realism and a little too repetitive with the metaphors.
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This is the third of French's "Dublin Murder Squad" books I've read, and she certainly seems to like mining the theme of identity -- hidden identities, confused identities, etc... and this book takes it to the most extreme. In fact, so extreme that the basic premise is utterly laughable -- I'm not sure I've ever read a crime novel that asks the reader to suspend so much disbelief. I could never get past that, and so I could never really buy into the story -- which, to be fair, is quite well told
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A girl who looks exactly like Detective Cassie Maddox dies, and she dies under the name of Lexie Madison, a false name used by Cassie when she was an undercover agent some years ago.
I could suspend my disbelief for most part of the book, up till about pg. 500+, when (view spoiler). I think the novel may have dragged on for a bit too long, perhaps? Admittedly, it's so difficult to write a good ...more
I could suspend my disbelief for most part of the book, up till about pg. 500+, when (view spoiler). I think the novel may have dragged on for a bit too long, perhaps? Admittedly, it's so difficult to write a good ...more
You have to suspend an awful lot of disbelief to enjoy this book. You have to accept, for starters, that two unrelated people can look so much alike that one could impersonate the other and fool their very closest friends while living in the same house. You would have to accept that a professional police force and the boyfriend of the undercover agent would embed her in a house with four murder suspects. If you can accept those two premises, the rest of the implausible events should go down pret
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Tana French is amazing. I don't know how anyone can write such creepy realistic no-neat-answers mysteries. I'm going back and giving In the Woods 5 stars because this is almost worth 5 stars and her other book is a little better.
Also, I think I need to read some (nonfiction) stuff about Ireland. Like there aren't enough things on my list of Things to Learn About already. And then there's this business of developing a syllabus, which is what I *should* be doing with my "free time." ...more
Also, I think I need to read some (nonfiction) stuff about Ireland. Like there aren't enough things on my list of Things to Learn About already. And then there's this business of developing a syllabus, which is what I *should* be doing with my "free time." ...more
I enjoyed this one more than In the Wood. Cassie's complex and conflicted feelings about her life and those in it resonated with me. Sometimes being faced with losing your way of life is how you move past malcontent.
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