In the Woods | Tana French | Knocked me off my feet!

In the Woods | Tana French | Surprisingly good and intriguing

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In the Woods

	In the Woods Tana French Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 219 reviews view larger image
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Knocked me off my feet!

I just finished Tana French's In the Woods this past weekend, and I have to say it knocked me off my feet! I literally couldn't put it down. The characters have such depth and the plot will definitely keep you guessing...I can't wait to read her new book, The Likeness. Buy this book...you won't be disappointed!

Surprisingly good and intriguing

Well that's it really. Bought this new on a whim at costco and was really captivated by the writing and the story. Very simple yet descriptive writing makes it easy to picture it all in your head, story and plot not predictable as I suspected they would be.

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Interesting and frustrating read

This was an interesting book. It was obvious to me while reading it that it was the authors first novel. I liked that it was long, because I like to read, but sometimes I felt like the author just threw in a bunch of unnecessary words- but besides that Tana French is a very very smart and talented writer. Don't get me wrong, there were parts where I absolutely couldn't put the book down. Reading 3 or 4 long chapters straight through- not realizing I had read so much until my head started to hurt. Although I knew who was behind the murder 1/3 way through the book, it was still a good suspense read. The ending drove me crazy. A very good book all the way through, but at the end I either wanted to throw it at a wall or cry. I guess the fact that it made me so angry proves that it actually was a very good book.

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In the Woods -- an Irish Secret History

The folks who give this a bad review I think are confusing this with a regular detective story. What it reminded me of was a cross between Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) and Donna Tartt's A Secret History.

The story was a wonderful character development. the "hero" of the story obviously is Cassie, not Rob. And I liked the lack of resolution for the earlier mystery. It had hints of things we really don't want to know, horrors in the shadows, in the closets.

If you want the standard police procedure, skip this. But if you enjoy the works of Barbara Vine or even PD James, you'll love the character development, the "unreliable narrator" that Rob is, the hint of things best left unexplored.

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Wasted potential, disappointing ending

This book was really well written - the author has a talent for using words. I thought the dual plots were interesting and there was so much potential here that I was greatly disappointed by the lack of resolution at the end. The book was too long somehow, although I can't say exactly why. I just kept reading and thinking "Come on, let's get this solved!" I couldn't believe the way it ended - even if the solution had been a sad or shocking one, I wish there had been a solution of some sort, to have some type of closure. Other than that, I would not warn future readers to avoid the book. It's worth reading.

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