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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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The Keeper by Tana French

The Keeper by Tana French

February 22, 2026 by Classic Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Cal Hooper #3, Tana French, The Keeper

Classic's CBR18 Review No:9 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Cal Hooper #3, Tana French, The Keeper ·
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An Increasingly Unhinged Collection of Stream of Consciously Annotated Reviews Part 3

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

December 31, 2025 by dsbs42 5 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Emily Henry, martha wells, Samantha Irby, Tana French

dsbs42's CBR17 Review No:15 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Romance · Tags: Emily Henry, martha wells, Samantha Irby, Tana French ·
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But Now Am Found

The Hunter by Tana French

April 10, 2025 by Zirza Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Cal Hooper, Ireland, Tana French, The Hunter

Zirza's CBR17 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Cal Hooper, Ireland, Tana French, The Hunter ·
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“Being boring is among Cal’s main goals. For most of his life, one or more elements always insisted on being interesting, to the point where dullness took on an unattainable end-of-the-rainbow glow. Ever since he finally got his hands on it, he’s savored every second.

The Hunter (Cal Hooper #2) by Tana French

March 26, 2025 by cheerbrarian 6 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: crime thriller, Ireland, Tana French, The Hunter

cheerbrarian's CBR17 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: crime thriller, Ireland, Tana French, The Hunter ·
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I live inside my own skin. Anything that happens outside it doesn’t change who I am. This isn’t something I’m proud of; as far as I’m concerned, it’s a bare minimum baseline requirement for calling yourself an adult human being, somewhere around the level of knowing how to do your own washing or change a toilet roll.

The Trespasser (Dublin Murder Squad, #6) by Tana French

March 26, 2025 by cheerbrarian 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Tana French, the dublin murder squad, the trespasser

cheerbrarian's CBR17 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Tana French, the dublin murder squad, the trespasser ·
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“It hits her full force that her mother is a mystery to her. She could have anything folded away inside her silence.”

The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

June 6, 2024 by narfna Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Cal Hooper, crime, Irish, narfna, psychological suspense, Tana French, The Hunter

narfna's CBR16 Review No:28 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Cal Hooper, crime, Irish, narfna, psychological suspense, Tana French, The Hunter ·
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