Hi everyone. I'm Rincey and this is Rincey Reads.
Today I'm going to be doing a book
review on The Trespasser by Tana French.
This is the sixth book in the Dublin
Murder Squad series. If you've been
watching me for a while you know that I
am a big, big fan of Tana French and a
big fan of this series. As I've mentioned
before, it's not required that you read
any of the other books in the series.
They all work perfectly a standalone but
there is a connection between all the books.
So you meet the detective for the
second book in the first book and you
meet the detective or third book in the
second book and so on and so forth.
So the main detective that you are
following in this book is Detective Antoinette
Conway who you met in The Secret Place,
which was the fifth book in the series.
It's her as well as Steven Moran who was
the main detective in the fifth book.
Antoinette Conway has been working on the
muder squad for a couple of years now and
she is not liked at all within her department.
She has to deal with a lot of
harassment, a lot of pranks. She gets a
lot of the really crappy cases.
Her partner, Stephen Moran, is probably the
only person in the entire department
that she can actually trust. And so they
generally get you know the lower level
murder cases. So one day Antoinette and
Stephen are like finishing up their shift.
Then a murder case comes across their
desk and so it looks like it's going to
be your run-of-the-mill domestic case.
There is a young woman who was found
dead in her house.
The main suspect in the case is her
boyfriend and so everyone in the
department is basically pushing for them
to arrest the boyfriend to charge him
for the murder. But there's a couple of
things that seem to be rubbing Antoinette
the wrong way. One, she recognizes this
girl from somewhere but she's not
exactly sure where. The second is that
everything isn't really lining up the
way that it normally would. And third, she's
starting to wonder whether or not this
is like some sort of prank or some sort
of harassment, if people are trying to
set her up to fail with this case. And so
she becomes more and more paranoid as
the book goes on and she starts to not
even be sure of what is real evidence
and what's been tampered with and what
she can trust and believe anymore.
So I read this book with Sabrina from
unmanagedmischief and Olive from abookolive.
I'll have links to their channels down below.
And they were not big fans of this book.
I was a big fan of this book.
So it seems like Tana French is taking a lot
more risks with her Dublin murder squad
books and trying things out and
experimenting, which personally I'm
really enjoying. The thing about Tana
French's books that I really love is the
fact that she just creates mysteries
that are interesting but it's not the
mystery themselves have pulled me and
it's the detectives. She creates really
interesting characters and in all of her
books that really draw me in. I think
you get really interesting point of
views in all of her books and just
following people's just psyches is just so fantastic.
The reason why I love this book so much
is because you're completely in Antoinette's
head the entire time. And so I feel like
as a reader I started to get paranoid
for her as well. Like I had no idea what
information I could trust in this book or not.
Like typically with mystery books you're
getting the clues and you're getting the
evidence and you can start to put
together the pieces yourself. Normally
you can follow sort of like the path
that you're going down, you might not be
able to solve the mystery necessarily
but you'll at least see how they get there
in the end. This book I had no idea where
it was going to go. Like I got to like
the 70% or 75% mark
and i'm still so confounded
by this story because it's so hard to
grasp what is truth and what is not truth.
Because you're in Antoinette's head the
entire time and she's starting to get
more and more paranoid about things that
are going on. So as a reader you start to
get paranoid and second-guess all of the
clues that are coming in. And it just,
it was a mystery until like almost the very end.
This is a really slow moving
book for the most part. So that's
something that definitely will not be
appealing to a lot of people. Especially
if you're someone who's read Tana
French's other books, a lot of those
books are very like plot heavy, very fast paced.
This one is a slow burn and it
isn't until the last 20, 25%
of this book that the plot
really gets moving and you start to see
the mystery start to wrap up. So I can
definitely see that getting on people's
nerves with this one more than the other books.
But still I feel like the
mysteries aren't the point with Tana French's books.
Like I feel like she just uses mysteries
as a device in order to delve into these
really interesting characters and delve
into their backgrounds and to delve into
their history to explain just a really
unique point of view. So yeah in the
end I gave this book a 4 out of 5 stars.
I really like this book. I think Antoinette Conway
is probably one of the best protagonists
that Tana French has written about.
I feel like Tana French is just one of those
authors you have to read for yourself but
don't go in expecting typical mystery stuff
because she is 100% not a
typical mystery writer in my opinion but
I also think that's why she's so fantastic.
So yeah those are my quick thoughts on
The Trespasser by Tanaf French. If you've read
this book definitely leave a comment down below
letting me know what you guys thought of it.
I know a lot of people are starting
to pick up Tana French's books and so I
know they're quite a few people who have
read this one so I'd definitely love to
hear your thoughts.
So yeah that's all I have for now and thanks for watching
