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A review by is_book_loring
The Secret Place by Tana French
4.0
“She hears all the voices from when she was little, soothing, strengthening: Don’t be scared, not of monsters, not of witches, not of big dogs. And now, snapping loud from every direction: Be scared, you have to be scared, ordering like this is your one absolute duty. Be scared you’re fat, be scared your boobs are too big and be scared they’re too small. Be scared to walk on your own, specially anywhere quiet enough that you can hear yourself think. Be scared of wearing the wrong stuff, saying the wrong thing, having a stupid laugh, being uncool. Be scared of guys not fancying you; be scared of guys, they’re animals, rabid, can’t stop themselves. Be scared of girls, they’re all vicious, they’ll cut you down before you can cut them. Be scared of strangers. Be scared you won’t do well enough in your exams, be scared of getting in trouble. Be scared terrified petrified that everything you are is every kind of wrong. Good girl.”
One day of investigation to a year unsolved case that managed to feel like one towering wall of claustrophobic waves striking right into the bones with its roaring rolls of magical, scarring, all-encompassing teenage world, intensely bright and too loud, terrifyingly forever, its hopeless frail hold on time and the desperate faith to protect the illusion of its eternity. A little implausible when one takes a step back, but from inside the breathless sphere? Incredibly convincing with its psychological head-fuckery storm of how someone arrives behind the line of murder.
One day of investigation to a year unsolved case that managed to feel like one towering wall of claustrophobic waves striking right into the bones with its roaring rolls of magical, scarring, all-encompassing teenage world, intensely bright and too loud, terrifyingly forever, its hopeless frail hold on time and the desperate faith to protect the illusion of its eternity. A little implausible when one takes a step back, but from inside the breathless sphere? Incredibly convincing with its psychological head-fuckery storm of how someone arrives behind the line of murder.