![]() However, the novel is slow to start, and by its end, after chapters of acrimony among the house’s residents aggravated by Cassie’s deconstruction of their micro-society, the story loses its vitality and ends unconvincingly.Īt the beginning of the story Cassie is working a desk job in Domestic Violence. ![]() The complementary descriptions of the fecund Wicklow countryside and psychological tangles of the novel’s characters–both the group and undercover detective Cassie Maddox struggle with problematic identities–make for a read that is striking and memorable. The five graduate students, who along with Detective Cassie Maddox, are at the center of the story, form a cult-like group while living in Whitethorn, an Edwardian mansion that riles the local Irish for its ties to English suppression. ![]() At its best The Likeness by Tana French is a richly described mystery that offers both suspense and a memorable group of troubled personalities. ![]()
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