Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

I hate myself a bit for getting sucked into this one….

The Likeness - Dublin Murder Squad #2 by Tana French

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 Ok…after wanting to throw book #1 across the room multiple times, this was a bit of an improvement. It is not so much a sequel, as it is a spinoff, which was interesting.  It didn’t resolve any of my questions from book 1, but at least I didn’t have to deal with the biggest asshole character ever written anymore. The premise in this book is so unbelievable that I rolled my eyes more than once, because, COME ON. Our detective is called to a murder seen where the victim is her doppelgänger, and is using the assumed name that she […]

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7/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:28 |

I WANT TO PUNCH THE ENDING OF THIS BOOK IN THE TEETH.

In The Woods by Tana French

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 Oh sweet mother, did this book ever frustrate me. On one hand, the premise is interesting – a girl shows up murdered in a forest; the lead detective on the case was involved in the suspicious disappearance of two of his friends when he was a child – in the exact same forest.  Dun dun duuuunnnnn….  Who killed this girl? What happened to his friends all those years ago? Are the two cases related? 608 PAGES LATER AND ONLY ONE OF THOSE QUESTIONS WAS ANSWERED. WTF. The modern day case was fine, a somewhat predictable and sorta infuriating ending, but […]

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7/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:27 |

You can never go home again

Faithful Place by Tana French

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Mystery is apparently my favorite genre for 2017. Next up for me is Tana French’s third Dublin Murder Squad book, Faithful Place. In this installment we are allowed into the mind of Frank Mackey – the lead detective on the Undercover Squad whom we met in The Likeness, and frankly (ha!) didn’t like. Back when Frank was a young man from the wrong side of the river living with his parents and four siblings, he fell in love with a feisty young girl down the street named Rose. Their fathers were definitely not fans of each other so their love […]

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7/11/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:15 |

Grim, with a side of bleak

Broken Harbor by Tana French

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  Unfortunately, I think I might be changing my mind about Tana French. I loved The Secret Place, but nothing since then has held up. I know my literary tastes tend to be a little on the pedestrian side, but I would like a few more loose ends tied up, and a little bit more of a happy ending. Detective Kennedy and his newbie partner Detective Curran (I listened to the audio book, sorry if I’m misspelling things) are assigned a case, the brutal slaying of an entire family. The crime took place in a spooky, half-completed subdivision that was […]

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5/11/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:12 |

Squad Goals

The Likeness by Tana French

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I’m a grown up now, so they say, so it’s been a really long time since I have been able to just pick up a book and become completely absorbed in it. For the most part, the days when I could polish off 200 pages in one sitting are long gone. Especially now that the hubs and I have our little one, I find myself sneaking in chapters when I can. Tana French’s The Likeness, however, grabbed my attention from page one and wouldn’t let go. I was so absorbed with this book I found myself reading it during baby’s […]

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5/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:8 |

It’s all about the Detectives

The Trespasser by Tana French

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It’s been a while since I’ve checked in on the Dublin Murder Squad.  One thing I like about Tana French is that she isn’t as prolific as many mystery writers are, making it fun to reacquaint oneself with the setting and some of the characters. I didn’t like the last book, The Secret Place, quite as much as earlier books, partly because the story was all about teenagers and that I found detective Antoinette Conway too angry and paranoid. I wasn’t sure what to expect when she turned out to be the narrator of this book, except to know that […]

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3/4/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:8 |

You can never go home again

Faithful Place by Tana French

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A spring evening in 1985, nineteen-year-old Frank Mackie is waiting impatiently outside for his girlfriend Rosie Daly, as they plan to elope and move to London, making a new life for themselves away from the hard life of the Dublin working poor. When she doesn’t show, Frank goes looking for her in the abandoned house a few door down, and finds a note that suggests she’s gone off without him. As Frank’s father is a violent drunk, his mother is neurotic and shrewish and his siblings aren’t exactly anything to write home about, Frank’s not really surprised, but he is […]

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2/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:10 |

Let’s take a moment to fangirl over Tana French

The Trespasser by Tana French

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2016 was a shit year, no doubt about it. But perhaps the least shitty thing to come out of it was my love of Tana French. I won’t even apologize for gushing about her so much guys. If you haven’t read her books, you can’t understand. I read her first book way back in January and finished up her last one in December. It’s a tough call, but The Trespasser is the best of the bunch and that’s really saying something. Reallllllly saying something. I don’t give out a lot of true 5 star ratings, but this one deserved it. […]

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12/31/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:79 |

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