The Keeper

I’ve been a devoted Tana French fan for almost 20 years, so I have thawts on this one. Sorry! 👩🏻‍💻

Okay. First of all. Elephant in the room. We all keep waiting for Tana French to be as good as she was in the Broken Harbor/Faithful Place days and it hasn’t happened with this Cal Hooper series, so I feel like I gotta get that out there first.

That being said, her B- is everyone else’s A. So I will keep reading her.

This book baffled me. The pacing was so off. The plot doesn’t start plotting until the 70% mark, and Cal, Lena, and Trey barely speak. Lots of repetition.

It took me like 4 weeks to get through the first 3/4 of the book.

Then a thing happens and the writing becomes sharp and perfect again and I finished the last 25% in a single day.

So, in summary: uneven, weird pacing, so-so plot, but an excellent Tana French ending.

I will always miss the Dublin series and I kind of hope she’s done with Cal and Ardnakelty.

I’m ready for something new from Tana French.

Vibes