6/8/2023 0 Comments The wych elm book reviewPlus, Uncle Hugo was a good character - and I wouldn't be surprised if he HAD actually done the murder himself, instead of just taking credit for it. Toby's valiant efforts to resist them were the one time I felt any sympathy for him at all. The two elements I did like were: 1) the whole art gallery scene near the beginning, with the privileged Toby and Tiernan dealing with the "lower-class" street artists (French should write a novel about that!) and 2) the way the police were perceived, and even presented as, the enemy, as they needled Toby and tried to make him confess to the murder. And the holes in the plot are so evident, and so clearly designed to keep some (false) sense of mystery going, that my exasperation level grew sky-high. Tana French can write, no doubt about that, but this book is so melodramatic and ultimately so unbelievable, that all her fine writing just weighs it down even more. The narrator, Toby, is a cocky self-centered jerk at the beginning and a self-pitying self-centered jerk at the end. French's writing is so beautiful that I didn't mind the slow pace. It's more character study than action plot and it's a bit slow-moving, but Ms. I finally managed to finish this endless and endlessly boring novel (albeit read brilliantly the whole way through by Paul Nugent). JudyGibson Even though I like the Dublin Murder Squad series better, I enjoyed this standalone novel from Tana French.
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