Did Everybody Get This Email?

I received an email from one of the publicists over at Viking/Penguin Publicity. Have you seen this?

COME MEET BESTSELLING MYSTERY AUTHOR
TANA FRENCH

. . . WELL, AT LEAST MEET HER VIRTUALLY VIA
A LIVE ONLINE CHAT ON JULY 2O AT 1:30 PM ET

Penguin Books invites you and your readers to join the celebrated mystery author, Tana French, for a chat at the Penguin Water Cooler on Tuesday, July 20th at 1:30 PM ET, hosted here on the Penguin USA website!

I won't be participating because I will be at work (and I haven't read her new book). Will you be there?

Should I Read This?

When I started my blog almost two years ago, I wrote a post about Tana French's In the Woods. At the time, I absolutely adored the book and French's writing until the last 100 pages. Within the last 100 pages, I became very impatient to solve the mysteries and then was disappointed by one aspect of the ending. Then yesterday, I read that Tana French's third book is coming out soon and thought maybe I should give her second book, The Likeness, a try.

What do you think? Should I give The Likeness a try? Have you read any books by Tana French? If so, what did you think of them?

In the Woods: great literature or utterly disappointing?

I recently read In the Woods by Tana French. It was suggested during book club by a local author. I went online and read a sample chapter and was very excited at the prospect of reading this book. For the next 2 1/2 days I worked my way through the 438 (or so) paged book and came away disappointed. The beginning was fantastic, a murder of a young teenager in a small town in Ireland, two detectives who are called to the scene, and one of the them hiding a secret from his childhood that took place in the same town.



I fell in love with the characters and got swept up in the plot. All of a sudden, with 150 pages to go, I just wanted it to end. I wanted the story to wrap up -- needed to know who the murderer was and how it connected to the detective's past. So I soldiered on through the last 150 pages and came away with one mystery solved and one unresolved.



I never thought of myself as a person who needed closure or everything wrapped up in a bow at the end. Yet, I was frustrated by the fact that one of the mysteries would never be solved and that made me dislike the book overall. So here is the question: Have ever read a book (or seen a movie) that you completely loved until the ending? If so, what was it?