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The Likeness: A Novel |  | Author: Tana French
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
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Rating:  168 reviews
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 466
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 1
ISBN: 0143115626
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9780143115625
ASIN: 0143115626
Publication Date: May 26, 2009
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Product Description
The haunting follow up to the Edgar Award-winning debut In the Woods
Tana French astonished critics and readers alike with her mesmerizing debut novel, In the Woods. Now both French and Detective Cassie Maddox return to unravel a case even more sinister and enigmatic than the first. Six months after the events of In the Woods, an urgent telephone call beckons Cassie to a grisly crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used. Suddenly, Cassie must discover not only who killed this girl, but, more importantly, who is this girl? A disturbing tale of shifting identities, The Likeness firmly establishes Tana French as an important voice in suspense fiction.
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 The Likeness September 5, 2010
Phyllis H. Pajka
Excellent book. I'm not quite finished but can't wait to find out how it ends. I have all three of her books and have loved the first 2. Will get to #3 as soon as I finish The Likeness.
Much better this time! September 4, 2010
T. Good (Limerick, PA USA)
I liked this novel much better than the author's first. It hit me about a third of the way in this time, that the writing felt more true to the main character. Ms. French made Cassie Maddox the central character in this novel and all her prosy (and still long-winded) writing made much more sense. I thought about it and that's what had bothered me during the last novel. All the lengthy descriptions and waxing prosaic just didn't fit (in my mind) as to how a male murder detective would think and feel. Before I get slammed for being a mysoginistic creep, I'm not opposed to Ms. French's writing style but for me I felt it was a bit too flowery when applied to a male. I could probably go back and reread the first novel and enjoy it more but I'm moving on to the third novel.
Anyway, this book did get hold of me and kept me going. I liked the concept and it is well presented. Again, she can go off on a long-winded tangent which I've learned to kind of gloss over, but I felt it was a bit less this time. Maybe it was just because I felt the character and the writing style meshed better this time. I can recommend this to you and I think you will enjoy it.
"The Likeness:" A Review August 31, 2010
James L. Thane (Scottsdale, AZ)
Like a great many other people, I thoroughly enjoyed Tana French's debut novel, "In the Woods," and I was eagerly anticipating the opportunity to finally get to her second book, "The Likeness: A Novel." I find, though, that after finishing it, I have very mixed feelings about it.
The book features Dublin Detective Cassie Maddox who returns from "In the Woods." After a particularly brutal murder case, Cassie has transferred out of the Murder Squad and is now working in Domestic Violence. But she is called to the scene of a murder when detectives discover a victim who could be Cassie's identical twin. If that weren't enough, the victim is also carrying ID indicating that she is Lexie Madison, an identity that Cassie created and used when she was formerly working undercover.
The victim was a Trinity College graduate student living in an isolated rural house with four other graduate students. There is precious little evidence at the scene, and so Cassie's former boss in the undercover unit, Frank Mackey, conceives of a plan in which the housemates will be told that the victim, Lexie, was wounded but not killed. After a week in which the victim is allegedly being treated in the hospital, Cassie will assume the dead woman's identity, move back into the house and see what evidence she can gather about the murder from within. Not only that, but Cassie will also take over the victim's graduate studies and the students that she was tutoring.
All crime novels require that the reader suspend disbelief, at least to some extent, but this one requires a greater leap than most. It's hard to get your head around the fact that in only a week's time, and with only a brief video to study along with interviews of the housemates conducted by other detectives, Cassie could step into this woman's life, living with people that Lexie had known intimately, and that no one is going to suspect the substitution. And neither will the woman's professors and students. Somehow Cassie has also absorbed enough of the subject matter that she can pick up Lexie's professional life as well.
If you can get beyond that--and I managed to do so for a while--this is an absolutely engrossing book. French writes beautifully and the strength of the book lies in the characters that she has created and in the world of the Irish culture and countryside that she portrays. And even more interesting than the progress of the investigation itself is watching the effect of the impersonation on Cassie who begins to lose herself as she grows more deeply attached to Lexie's life and the people who surrounded her.
Ultimately the book lost me about two-thirds of the way through when one of the characters behaved so irrationally--at least to my mind--that I just couldn't buy into it anymore. Still, even at that, I liked this book quite a bit because in the end, I think, it's strengths far outweighed what, again for me, were it's weaknesses. I already have a copy of French's next book, "Faithful Place" in my stack of books to be read, and I am anxious to get to it.
 A Kindle Ripoff! August 21, 2010
-- Peggy (Greenbelt, MD)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the first hard copy book I have purchased when a Kindle version was available since I got my Kindle several years ago.
When the Kindle price is over 150% of the paperback price ($12.99 for Kindle, $8.25 for paperback), you know something is off kilter. So I bought this expensive reader to pay MORE for the convenience of the publisher not to have to pay to print the book and ship, and for Amazon not to have to deal with warehousing and shipping? I think not.
I went for the cheaper price for me, and the higher cost to the publisher and Amazon.
It seems that the statement Amazon puts on their Kindle page "This price was set by the publisher" is a cop-out. The price of hard copy books is also "set by the publisher" but they routinely sell them for less.
Unhappy!
With respect to the content of the book - I can't say yet - I enjoyed Tana French's first book, so I am purchasing this one.
 Slow August 16, 2010
mitch
The premise was totally unbelievable and the book was very slow. The first 100 pages moved at a snail's pace and slowed down from there. No suspense or tension was developed and, after the small bit of action that essentially ended the story, the book continued for many more anticlimactic pages. All in all, a big disappointment.
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