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I wonder if anyone else has the trouble with Tana French’s novels that I have. She’s a good writer but her interjection of coarse ‘language’ seems to me out of place and unnecessary. In this book the detective does not appear to be coarse, yet every now and then the interjected coarseness irritates me. I’m not a prude by any means and can swear with the best of them in the right atmosphere.

I am about 100 pages from the end and am forcing my self to finish it only because it’s based on a true story. However I find the story trite and shallow.
There was no sense throughout the story so far if the tension felt by the Dacher family because of the situation of the Jews. I didn’t get the sense that they were truly aware of the dangers.
The romances were so Hollywood that they became irritating.

Anyone who reads police procedural books by, say Michael Connolly, or Tana French, is probably used to a thinking policeman who is seen to be on the job, with clues sprinkled throughout.
This book is nothing like that. It’s all laid out from the start.
I have reached page 200 of 415 pages and I am bored silly. There is no tension and no incentive to continue to the end.

Sickly sweet. It’s difficult to continue reading it. But I presume at some stage it will get better and be worth the effort.

This is the tale of an American doctor who, together with his wife (and son) became part of the French resistance during the invasion of Paris by the nazis. I found it to be a superficial litany of the various nazis and their positions, some oblique and hastily described occurrences of the resistance. The claim of it 'reading like a thriller' simply evaded me. Unfinished!

I have finished reading "The Secret Place" by Tana French. 1.5 stars
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. 4 stars
Too Close to Home by Susan Lewis. 4.5 stars

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Amazing story of a family in the Sudetenland during the rise of hitler.

The story of an assimilated family in the Sudetenland during the rise of hitler. Written in an understated tone, which makes this read more spine-chilling in hindsight.

Far to Go by Alison Pick

it was an OK read but not all that memorable

Finished reading this book. Very strange beginning, but a gripping read even though it is about the second world war.

Good book, great read

Didn't finish either book.

Haven't finished

Abandoned in the middle

Not read

A great read

Still half-read. Not inspiring to me