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roshnara 's review for:
The Secret Place
by Tana French
This book was odd. Odd like someone threw Mean Girls, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Faithful place in a blender, drank the resulting mess, and puked it out onto a paperback. I'm not saying it was all bad, but MAGIC? Why?
Anyway, the premise of the book is, a student was murdered in a prestigious snooty school and a year later, someone announces that they know what happened. This brings the Murder Squad (This time featuring Stephen Moran) onto the scene to save the day. This, and how they go about solving the murder, is the good bit.
The not so good bit is the full dive into the world of snotty teens that we take. I don't know how necessary the deep dive was. The utterly weird bit was the witchcraft with the lights and the electricity. If the story was simply about the murder and who did it (which was way obvious around mid-book), this would gave been a hundred pages lighter and an easier, more satisfying read.
The only thing that salvages this is the return of Frank Mackey. Honestly the fifty pages with him in it are almost the best thing about the book
Anyway, the premise of the book is, a student was murdered in a prestigious snooty school and a year later, someone announces that they know what happened. This brings the Murder Squad (This time featuring Stephen Moran) onto the scene to save the day. This, and how they go about solving the murder, is the good bit.
The not so good bit is the full dive into the world of snotty teens that we take. I don't know how necessary the deep dive was. The utterly weird bit was the witchcraft with the lights and the electricity. If the story was simply about the murder and who did it (which was way obvious around mid-book), this would gave been a hundred pages lighter and an easier, more satisfying read.
The only thing that salvages this is the return of Frank Mackey. Honestly the fifty pages with him in it are almost the best thing about the book