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A review by inarasarah
The Searcher by Tana French
2.0
I was excited to read both this book and the sequel, and borrowed both from the library. I'll finish a good book that sucks me in in a day, but I've been working on this one for a week now and I keep finding reasons not to read. I finally just decided - on p 489 of around 530 - that it's not worth it anymore. I just don't care enough about the central mystery to keep it up. I would describe this story as the opposite of compelling.
Essentially, a teenager goes missing, and his little sibling asks our protagonist Cal (a former cop) to look into it. But honestly, the plot draaaags. I mean, I spent 400 pages watching Cal finding out very little, and the rest of the town seemingly trying to warn him off of the search (subtly at first and I wouldn't have seen the incidents as "warnings" if Cal didn't say they were, until he gets beat up one night). But nothing else really happened in those 400 pages. By the time I put this down, all I know is that drugs are maybe involved. There's also a random sub-mystery of sheep being killed that had a weak answer (to the point that when Cal solves it I shook my head like, what was the point of this??). I debated just skimming the last 40 or so pages, but it just didn't seem worth it. Cal will figure out what happened to the kid. Maybe it involves drugs, maybe not; maybe he'll be alive, maybe not. I just don't care either way.
Absolutely not worth it for me. I'm not going to bother with the second one.
Essentially, a teenager goes missing, and his little sibling asks our protagonist Cal (a former cop) to look into it. But honestly, the plot draaaags. I mean, I spent 400 pages watching Cal finding out very little, and the rest of the town seemingly trying to warn him off of the search (subtly at first and I wouldn't have seen the incidents as "warnings" if Cal didn't say they were, until he gets beat up one night). But nothing else really happened in those 400 pages. By the time I put this down, all I know is that drugs are maybe involved. There's also a random sub-mystery of sheep being killed that had a weak answer (to the point that when Cal solves it I shook my head like, what was the point of this??). I debated just skimming the last 40 or so pages, but it just didn't seem worth it. Cal will figure out what happened to the kid. Maybe it involves drugs, maybe not; maybe he'll be alive, maybe not. I just don't care either way.
Absolutely not worth it for me. I'm not going to bother with the second one.