A review by annaclaire
In the Woods by Tana French

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

This book started off fine, with some tedious tangents from the narrator that were easy to ignore. However, around the 400 pages mark,
when Rob and Cassie sleep together and then Rob becomes a huge dickhead and for the next 200 pages feels sorry for himself but never does anything productive and essentially makes everything worse with every choice he makes
, I grew very tired of the narrator and the way information was told to the reader. At the end of the book,
when Rob ends up worse then he started and his childhood case doesn't even get freaking solved in the slightest and had nothing to do with the other crime so what was the point
, I was really just continuing so I could satisfy my curiosity on the mystery plot, but that wasn't really worth the headache of being inside Rob Ryan's head for 600 pages. I read this book because book 2 in the Dublin Murder series was recommended to me and honestly I'm not sure I'll get to it now, but it has to at least be better than this.
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