The Keeper by Tana French
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. I don’t even know what to say. I can count on one hand the number of French’s books that just didn’t hit right with me and I am sad to say, the latest Cal Hopper did not hit right. I think that the sad part of it really is for me that French didn’t go dark as she has in her previous installments of this series. It just […]
Witch King by Martha Wells
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
The Searcher by Tana French
Beach Read by Emily Henry
Book 11: Witch King by Martha Wells Rough Review: I really wanted to like this one. As yet another big fan of Murderbot, I trust Martha Wells’ character creation and storytelling abilities, and was looking forward to seeing what she could do with a fantasy world, but it was hard for me to connect to this one. Other than Bashasa, who is not a main character, I wasn’t particularly interested in anyone here. Despite the whole book being from his POV, I never felt like I got […]
The Hunter by Tana French
Cal Hooper is a former Chicago detective. Grown weary of his job, he’s upended his life and moved into a run-down fixer-upper in the small town of Ardnakelty, in an unnamed part of the Irish countryside. He’s found his place in the community, and that includes his girlfriend Lena and unruly, stoic teenager Trey, whom he teaches carpentry in an attempt to get life back on track. It works right up until the point where Trey’s long-lost father Johnny makes his return from London, bringing […]
The Hunter (Cal Hooper #2) by Tana French
We return to rural Ireland with Cal in this second installment of a new Tana French series. Cal came here after retiring from the Chicago police and in the first book was reluctantly pulled into town drama and an unsolved mystery. As with many French books, the ending of that one wasn’t wrapped up in a bow, but we learned who Cal was going to be: a man who would like to keep to himself, but won’t let the disadvantaged or those in need of […]
The Trespasser (Dublin Murder Squad, #6) by Tana French
The Trespasser was published in 2016 and I’ve owned a copy about that long. But I waited as long as possible, nearly 10 years (!) to read this book because it is the last in Tana French’s “Dublin Murder Squad” series and I couldn’t bare for it to be over. But what good is a book you never ever read, one that you’ve been anticipating and are excited to read? I finally got over myself and decided it was time to read this final chapter […]
The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French
Who am I kidding, this is five stars. It didn’t hit me as hard as previous books of hers have, but there is no fault here. She’s just a master of character and atmosphere, and she knows how to seed a twist in such a way that it has thematic value, not just shock value. Like its predecessor, The Searcher, this is a slow burn character study of a mystery. Also like The Searcher, this is a mystery where the investigation isn’t even the third most important […]
