All she needs is a sparring match with Frank, and Cassie quickly returns to the land of the living - and to the subtle demands of her perilous, suspenseful masquerade. But Cassie herself remains a strong enough character to sustain interest, even if many of her observations about Whitethorn have a vague, hazy quality. She could have achieved the same effects much more succinctly in a more tightly edited version of this same story. French resists genre conventions defiantly enough to have written a long, rambling book, one that is more interested in character revelations than in 'Aha!' moments about the plot. But The Likeness intends a much longer and more leisurely look at the householders’ domestic arrangements, their inner lives and the yearnings they trigger in Cassie, who has no real home of her own. the conventional approach to this suspenseful setup would have been to make one Whitethorn resident or Glenskehy villager a secretly murderous figure and save the details for a frenzied denouement. some resemblance to Donna Tartt’s Secret History. Now airing as a Starz series.,In the 'compelling (The Boston Globe) and 'pitch perfect (Entertainment Weekly) follow-up to Tana Frenchs runaway bestseller In the Woods, Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad-until an urgent telephone call brings her back to an eerie crime scene.
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