kristinabrune_author's reviews
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For some reason, it took me a long time to warm up to this book and I stopped and started it like three times. But now that I'm done, I understand why everyone loved it. Really good.

This was so unexpectedly good. I read celebrity memoirs but the reviews for this were too hard to ignore. Tina Fey was personable, funny, and I very much felt like I was talking to an old friend. I rarely laugh out loud when I read but I found myself doing that a lot with this book. There was just the right amount of self-depreciation and recognition of her success. The celebrity name dropping wasn't overwhelming, either. I might even read this one again. Can't recommend enough!

This one was great at the beginning, kind of slow in the middle and GREAT at the end. Loved it. We didn't get full closure, but it wasn't the kind of cliffhanger that leaves you angry and totally lost. I think there's a sequel coming out in 2012 and I can't wait.

This book will make you think about your own strength, and paints an all-too-realistic picture of the world as we know it coming to an end.

I was disappinted with this. I wanted something creepy (which this was) and I felt like the plot was promising, just under-developed. There were some times I was reading at night and jumped as my AC kicked on or the dog made a noise, but overall I was kind of unimpressed.

This was classic Tana French in the sense that I got totally wrapped up in the characters, the wonderful Irish dialogue, and her incredible storytelling. But the mystery was a bit lacking for me in this one. I figured it out about halfway through the book (which usually I don't, I like to read blindly until I get caught off guard at the end) and it seems like in her other books, she had me guessing til the end.

But overall, I recommend it. She is an amazing storyteller and Frank Mackey might be my favorite Tana French character yet.

I don't really know what to say about this book. It's just...different. At the beginning I thought I hated it, as I couldn't tell if it was a fiction novel or some kind of fantasy novel. Then, as it became more clear, the creepiness of the book set in and I was totally wrapped up in the story and sped through it to find out what happened. It has all the making of a great mystery, in that I didn't really know what was happening until the end.

But then we came to the end. I was prepared to give it four stars, but the ending left me hanging, without fully explaining what actually happened, and I HATE that. So, I only gave it three because the ending wasn't complete, in my opinion. But definitely worth reading.