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It’s Monday, what are you reading?

Posted on August 29, 2010
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Sheila from One Person’s Journey through a World of Books hosts this meme and I love to participate in it! Head on over and check out her blog and the great participants there.

While you are here, be sure to check out the new tab up there at the top titled Entwife Read-Alongs! Our September book has been chosen and a page set up dedicated to it (along with a summary of our August book!).

Gwen from Chew & Digest Books gave us a yummy, fantastic non-fiction book for this months Cross-Bloggination feature.

And.. you might have noticed but I have a new blog design! Savvy, a friend of mine, is a fantastic artist and graciously consented to do a header and button for me (and more is in the works).  If you are looking for original, beautiful, hand-drawn artwork please let me know and I will get you contact information for her!

Also… check back in the morning for a fantastic giveaway – I’m so excited about this one and I’m sure you will be too!

Books I’ve Read this Week (Links to reviews):

  1. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
  2. Vanishing and Other Stories by Deborah Willis
  3. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  4. Shiver by Maggie Steifvater
  5. Linger by Maggie Steifvater
  6. The Constellation Chronicles: The Lost Civilization of Aries by Vincent Lowry
  7. The Bells by Richard Harvell
  8. Under this Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell
  9. Piers Desire by Marianne Ackerman

Book reviews put up this week:

  1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  2. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
  3. The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
  4. Total Eclipse by Rachel Caine
  5. Faithful Place by Tana French

Books to read this week:

The Day the Flowers Died by Ami Rebecca Blackwelder

(Buy on {indie}pendent Books with the link above!)

The Remains by Vincent Zandri

The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano

Nightshade by Ronie Kondig

(This is my Crazy Book Swap book!)

The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter

The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Machart

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Faithful Place by Tana French

Posted on August 29, 2010
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Warning: This is a review site and from time-to-time (although I try to avoid it)

there may be some spoiler information in my reviews.


Faithful PlaceFaithful Place by Tana French

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Short Summary:

The course of Frank Mackey’s life was set by one defining moment when he was nineteen. The moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to London as they had planned. Frank never heard from her again. Twenty years on, Frank is still in Dublin, working as an undercover cop. He’s cut all ties with his dysfunctional family. Until his sister calls to say that Rosie’s suitcase has been found. Frank embarks on a journey into his past that demands he reevaluate everything he believes to be true.

My Review:

I used to be a big fan of the big name suspense/mystery writers. I’d anxiously wait for the next Patterson or Stuart Woods book and then gobble it up as soon as I walked in the door with it.

But I’ve fallen out a love a bit with the genre and, were it not for Tana French, could quite possibly be happy without reading it much at all.

Then I discovered IN THE WOODS about a year ago – and it angered me as much as captured me – the strange ending, the weird twists and turns. I picked up THE LIKENESS and all anger I’d still felt just melted away and, once again, I was sucked into a story that was absolutely amazing.

FAITHFUL PLACE was no different. We visit Frank Mackey from IN THE WOODS fame and discover more about him, his divorce, his daughter and his hugely dysfunctional family.

This book put the mystery second place though, I think. It was the first time I was actually able to figure out “who done it” and I kept expecting another twist. Instead what I got was some really gritty, very real looks at the hardships caused by class difference and family background.

For the first time in a Tana French novel I put the book down and felt a spark of hope for the main character which was strange because, out of the three, this one was probably the darkest.

Tana’s writing is improving, her storytelling ability is gripping and I will anxiously be awaiting her next book with the same enthusiasm I’ve had in the past for authors who just can’t compare anymore.

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