In the Woods by Tana French

I keep going back and forth about how I feel about this book. It's a mystery, and we all know how much I love a mystery novel. But this one is intense, and somewhat dark. It's not a light, fluffy mystery novel (aka book candy).

The story was good. In fact I think Tana French did an excellent job fleshing the book out with a good back story and character relationships. It's about the murder of a 12 year old girl just outside of Dublin, but the deeper side of the book is about the police detectives who are assigned to the case. The murder is solved, but some of the other pieces of the story are sort of left hanging--but that's sort of fitting. It's not all wrapped up and tied with a bow.

The big negative of this book is language. The f-bomb is distracting. In fact several times I almost stopped reading the book because of it. I guess it shows there's enough to the story that it kept me reading in spite of that fact. But I'm still waffling just the tiniest bit on whether I should have kept going, or stopped. I guess that shows something too.