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A review by sharese_reads
The Trespasser by Tana French
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
The Trespasser follows Detective Antoinette Conway. It opens with a preface that gives us background that she does not know who her father is but knows that she is brown (her mom is white- the settling is Dublin, Ireland). Conway is the only woman on her detective squad. She and her partner, a red headed male named Moran, try to figure out a case involving a young woman who has been murdered in her home. The story is multilayered and the reader gets the story both in Conway’s head and happening outside of it.
Race does not play a prominent factor in this story however sex/gender does. All of the women in this book experience patriarchal aggressive on small and large scale. The main character internalizes a lot of this misogyny and it definitely shows in the book.
Tana French definitely knows how to write a book. The plot is slow and simmers with a few hot pops here and there. The psychology and setting are dark and shrouded in a misty fog you can feel while reading it. It was a great book to read during this dreary weather we’ve had this week.
Race does not play a prominent factor in this story however sex/gender does. All of the women in this book experience patriarchal aggressive on small and large scale. The main character internalizes a lot of this misogyny and it definitely shows in the book.
Tana French definitely knows how to write a book. The plot is slow and simmers with a few hot pops here and there. The psychology and setting are dark and shrouded in a misty fog you can feel while reading it. It was a great book to read during this dreary weather we’ve had this week.