The Likeness – Cannonball Read 17

Tana French Holds Up!

The Likeness by Tana French

June 18, 2020 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

My Tana French Dublin Murder Series reread continues! I can’t believe I read this 4 years ago! Time flies when you are sitting in your house staring into the abyss. But I digress. Original review below in italics with more goodness at the bottom. I received this book as one of my CBR Exchange gifts from The Chancellor (thank you!!) and was delighted to receive it. It has become a nice tradition as I received the first in the series as part of my exchange […]

“I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you’ve lost.”

The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2) by Tana French

December 30, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

Four years later and in a different format, this book is still great. I always do audiobooks on my first reads of Tana French’s books. There’s something very satisfying about listening to someone telling you their innermost feelings, as her books do like no other, and the audio format only enhances that for me. But I’ve been doing paper copies on my re-reads, and that’s an interesting experience too. It takes it more out of the feelings and into the craft of it (the feelings […]

I hate myself a bit for getting sucked into this one….

July 17, 2017 by kella Leave a Comment

Ok…after wanting to throw book #1 across the room multiple times, this was a bit of an improvement. It is not so much a sequel, as it is a spinoff, which was interesting. It didn’t resolve any of my questions from book 1, but at least I didn’t have to deal with the biggest asshole character ever written anymore. The premise in this book is so unbelievable that I rolled my eyes more than once, because, COME ON. Our detective is called to a murder […]

Maybe she’s a cylon

February 28, 2016 by yesknopemaybe Leave a Comment

I’m so glad I dove right into this one after finishing In The Woods. I liked them both, but The Likeness is a touch stronger in terms of writing and I loved the story. Cassie Maddox gets pulled into a murder investigation after a body is found who looks just like her. Everyone working the case is spooked by their eerie similarities, but things only get weirder when they find out she’s been living under one of Cassie’s old undercover aliases, Lexie Madison. Lexie was […]

Mirror Mirror on the wall, who is this dead person and why does she have my face?!

January 13, 2016 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

I received this book as one of my CBR Exchange gifts from The Chancellor (thank you!!) and was delighted to receive it. It has become a nice tradition as I received the first in the series as part of my exchange gift last year. Whereas it took me about a year to open the first one, this was not the case the second time around, and it was my first book of the new year because I knew what I was in for: compelling and excellent […]

Could you step into the shoes of your doppelganger?

December 9, 2015 by Malin 3 Comments

After a murder investigation that completely destroyed her relationship with her detective partner and best friend, Dublin murder detective Cassie Maddox moved to the Domestic Violence unit and took up target shooting to deal with her feelings of anxiety. She’s therefore surprised when her boyfriend, Sam O’Neill calls her from a murder site, and asks her to come meet him, but to make sure she wears sunglasses and a hat or some such, to disguise her appearance a bit. Once Cassie sees the victim, she […]

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