Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Dear Tana French, Never stop writing!!

Faithful Place by Tana French

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When I read Tana French’s debut thriller, In the Woods, my expectations were high because I had heard such great things about her storytelling, and she soared past my expectations. This was a book I did not put down, in fact, stuck in the car on a road trip I read on, knowing that reading in the car makes me feel gross.  It.  Did not.  Matter.  The oversimplified way I explain her style is that I tell people if you have ever been sucked into a marathon of Law and Order (any iteration), than she is for you. That’s not […]

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9/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:23 |

Teenage Drama Queens and the Detectives Who Interview Them

The Secret Place by Tana French

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The other night I stayed up past midnight reading Tana French’s The Secret Place. This fifth installment in the Dublin Murder Squad series was back to form, mostly, and I couldn’t put it down. Secret Place stars detective Stephen Moran (who we met in Faithful Place), who is working Cold Cases but still hoping he’ll make it on the Murder Squad. His chance comes when Holly Mackey (daughter of Frank, star of Faithful Place as well) comes to visit his office with some evidence about an old murder at her private boarding school. Holly is now 16 and attending Hilda’s, […]

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8/18/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:19 |

More Murder Squad

Broken Harbor by Tana French

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I was loving Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad so much I went straight from Faithful Place to Broken Harbor, the fourth entry in the series. Broken Harbor features Frank’s classmate and Murder Squad star Mike “Scorcher” Kennedy. A family is found murdered in their homes at a remote, dilapidated estate near the coast called Brianstown. The Murder squad chief assigns the case to Kennedy, hoping he can wipe the slate clean after his disastrous handling of the murder in Faithful Place. Kennedy selects his rookie partner Richie Curran for the case and the two of them work doggedly, sometimes at […]

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8/7/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:16 |

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 |

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