Book Review: In the Woods by Tana French
Author: Tana French
Book: In The Woods
Genre: Suspense/Thriller/Detective
Julia Rating: 7 (for writing skill)
Comments: Sorry, this book isn’t really horror. I thought it was, but it turned out to be a psychological thriller.
In the Woods is a book that showed great promise in the beginning, throughout the middle and failed (in my opinion) at the end. Tana French is a fantastic author. She keeps you interested, keeps the characters in constant upheaval and has you guessing what will happen next through the whole book. Sounds pretty good, right? The only problem that I encountered is that from the beginning Ms. French opens with a certain promise which, by the end, she fails to fulfill. (If I said more, this review would simply be a big fat spoiler, so I’m not going to say more. If you want to know what the promise is, or simply experience some of Ms. French’s fabulous writing, buy the book
This book is a very well written, though very depressing, psychological thriller that has a small element of horror in it (there are some horrible disappearances and murders – and a really repugnant psycho in there), but I was very disappointed and left frustrated by the ending. There are some who may like endings that don’t answer every question, that leave you hanging a bit, but that’s not generally me. I know real life doesn’t often tie everything up in a pretty bow, but I read partially to get away from real life.
If any of you have read In The Woods