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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
I’d say Tana has a habit of leaving us hungry for the ending we want. She leaves us angry at the end like not knowing who killed Rob’s friends in the woods. With Cassie not ending up with him and ultimately the case was a disaster in its entirety and left everyone with a foul taste in their mouth if the name of the case was brought up. The murders in the first book had absolutely nothing to do with one another; instead it dragged us along thinking we’d find out who traumatized Rob Ryan. Not only was Rob destroyed and broken down by this case he still didn’t end up with the girl.
Here we have a similar ending. The person culpable is never truly punished and instead due to the bond cassie makes with the kids of the house she takes pity upon their decision and guilt. The kid who deserves to be punished walks free while the mastermind lands on a morgues slab.
Hopefully we get some more cassie and rob
Here we have a similar ending. The person culpable is never truly punished and instead due to the bond cassie makes with the kids of the house she takes pity upon their decision and guilt. The kid who deserves to be punished walks free while the mastermind lands on a morgues slab.
Hopefully we get some more cassie and rob
I cannot recommend this book and its precursor, In the Woods, highly enough. Tana French is mad talented, and I can't wait for Faithful Place to come out this summer.
The premise of this book is so interesting. Detective Cassie Maddox, now working in the Domestic Violence squad, receives a phone call late one night from her boyfriend, Detective Sam O'Neill checking to see if she's OK. Cassie then gets a call from her former undercover boss, Frank Mackey, asking her to come to a scene quickly and not tell anyone where she is going. Cassie arrives at a small cottage in the countryside outside of Dublin and does a double take - the murder victim looks alarmingly like her. What's more, the victim has been identified as Lexie Madison, an identity used by Cassie when she worked in undercover. Frank wants Cassie to resurrect Lexie and go into the house where she lived with four flatmates, to see if she can identify the killer. Sam has serious doubts about Frank's plan but in the end Cassie decides to do it. The problem is that she gets a little bit too caught up in the fairy tale of Lexie's life and doesn't tell Frank and Sam when she finds Lexie's diary, hidden in the house. She is worried that Daniel, who owns the house, is onto her but is determined to find out what really happened to Lexie without involving her colleagues.
slow-paced
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes