5/19/2023 0 Comments Tana french the likeness review![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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