Faithful Place

3.5 rounded up

I think Tana French could write a book titled “The Fourteen Fungus Ridden Toenails of Henry VIII” and I would rush out and buy it on publication day,. There's just something about her style, it puts you right in the scene with the characters and the ash trays and the lace doilies. This story is about families, relationships, secrets, unresolved tensions etc etc. It's pretty grim to be honest, not in a gruesome bloodthirsty way, but a bleak way with no happy endings and main character who is so unlikeable I didn't care if he lived or died. Probably not as good as the previous book but enjoyable anyway.