![]() ![]() I can’t stand the paradoxical voice saying to me, “What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this - two things: I crave truth. Her first-person narrator, Detective Rob Ryan (aka “Adam”) turned me right off with his impenetrable narration. ![]() When I started In the Woods, I didn’t think I’d like it and I didn’t think I’d finish it. (Note: I took the accompanying picture of the morning sky on Dec. I was in thrall to French’s writing (rare in mystery, rarer in romance), which was horrific, funny, and penetrating all at once, at her broken, flawed, knowable and unknowable detectives, and her daring in solving one crime and leaving another hanging. Which can be comforting (romance serves this purpose well), or boring as heck. When you’ve been reading as long as I have, well, not much does. It was my first, and will not be my last French, because it surprised me. ![]() Three sleepless nights and I finally turned the last page of Tana French’s In the Woods. ![]()
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