This book is perfect: the characters, the beautiful sentences, the plot, the themes. What Happens After You Get a Literary Agent. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Mad Mick also fits very well with various expectations of, and predictions about, the killer: — Mrs. Fitzgerald thinks “Some mentaler threw [the kids] in the river. Totally missed that. And Rob? But he might have just broken in, as well, and the authorities perhaps never realized he was released due to shoddy recordkeeping or communication. It’s honestly the reason I considered getting a PhD, just so those long classroom discussions in those Victorian-New-England-house-cum-classrooms could continue indefinitely. | Wanderlusty Writer, 5 Books I Can’t Wait to Read This October | Wanderlusty Writer, How To Write Characters You Hate | Wanderlusty Writer, On The Necessity of Flawed Characters | Wanderlusty Writer, MK’s Book Reviews: After The Fall | Wanderlusty Writer, What Authors’ Books Will You Always Pick Up? Relationships like that are very adolescent, in a way, and I miss them like crazy. Just read your analysis after browsing the comments on goodreads, and I have to say, this really sounds like it could be what happened! This echoes the quote at the beginning of the novel: Probably just somebody’s nasty black poodle. In its annual book awards, Salon named The Likeness one of the ten best books of 2008. [I just realised that the call scene of book 1 must have taken place AFTER the end of book 2 (because Sam and Cassie are engaged). I usually don’t read books by focusing on theories rather than themes, but I really felt like there was solid setup for an answer in this one. Lexie's housemates tell Cassie that she went for a lot of these walks at night before her attack as well, and allude to Lexie's mysterious past. so why doesn't she just pretend to be the murdered girl, slip unnoticed into her life, and take it from there? But I love it. He also just might have crossed paths with him or heard about the incident. A doppelganger worthy of speculative fiction and people living in a variant of a Tolstoyan commune murder mystery. So, if I tried to fill in the blanks I would say. The writing, the characters, the plot. For all her wordiness, Tana French could be a little more obvious since I'm not the only one that missed that, lol. Tana French Booklist Tana French Message Board Detailed plot synopsis reviews of The Likeness A young female detective goes undercover, impersonating a dead woman who looks just like her, in order to solve the woman's murder. Plus he complains he has to rent a room from Heather (who Mother’s him in a lot of ways) as there is no place for him to afford and he is saving to move out when Cassie has her own apartment and moved there after him and presumably makes the same amount of money. The premise is outlandish and completely unbelievable. Enter Author Mentor Match! so why doesn't she just pretend to be the murdered girl, slip unnoticed into her life, and take it from there? Tana French is a goddess of literature. I’d love a discussion about this! I am still intrigued enough to keep reading her books because something about the world she is creating is appealing to me. (The awfulness of that justification should be clear, so I’m not getting into it here.) Tana French. Totally agree that the answer is in Rob’s mind. Impressive writing. You could consider that no man’s land between childhood and adulthood to be such a place. Just keep remembering he tells you right from the start that he is an unreliable narrator! She suspects that an ex-lover of Lexie's may be responsible for her death. Think about all the times Rob saw a dark animal darting across the road, in the clearing in the woods, dancing at the corners of his vision, the golden eyes with long lashes at the edge of the wood, the laughter echoing in the woods after the rape. and against all odds; the premise of this book is so staggeringly unbelievable.check it out: so there's a murrrrrder, and the body is that of a young woman who looks just like detective cassie maddox!
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