A review by mollyd
The Witch Elm by Tana French

3.0

This book. I have loved French's other work from the Dublin Murder Squad series, but this book just did not click with me. It was way too long, for one, with so, so much time spent on stuff that was absolutely not pertinent to the plot. It took so long to even get to the place where there is a body. The narrator is also a jerk. French has done that in some of her other books, as well, but somehow it felt like she wanted us to spend so much time in his head, covering all kinds of stuff that had nothing to do with the plot. The mystery is ok, but not stellar. I guessed at least part of it pretty quickly. And then the end seemed totally off kilter. I won't give spoilers but it seemed over the top. This book maybe deserves two stars but despite all the flaws I still wanted to keep reading it, so it I'm giving it a weak three stars.