![]() ![]() It's more that he's obnoxiously clueless, a self-proclaimed "lucky bastard" wrapped in a bubble of his own privilege. He's an asshole, but it's not that because sometimes assholes can be interesting (I might want to rewrite that sentence later). ![]() And that's before we've got to Kennedy, Moran and the ferocious Antoinette Conway. I will probably never get over Frank and Rosie from Faithful Place. I shipped Rob and Cassie so hard in In the Woods, and Cassie herself made the implausible plot of The Likeness actually okay. The crimes are whatever the detectives - their voices, quirks, passions and personal histories - are what make her books so damn addictive. To start with, I feel like my love for French is centred around her awesome, snarky, flawed, messy, human detectives. ![]() It's definitely not a bad book, but The Witch Elm - French's first standalone outside of her Dublin Murder Squad series - just didn't contain a lot of the stuff I've loved from this author. I keep trying to convince myself to bump this up a star because it's hard to believe Tana French can write anything that isn't amazing. I just knew I jinxed it by writing that first paragraph in my review of The Secret Place. I actually didn't love a Tana French book. ![]()
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