![]() Cassie eats home-cooked meals with the housemates, drinks wine, teaches easy tutorials, and reads for Lexie’s thesis. The five spend their days in a vintage, academic daydream and Cassie, as “Lexie,” slips right in to try to uncover Lexie’s last days. Lexie, before her tragic death, lived in a dreamily shabby mansion with four other grad student friends. So much of the tension in this novel comes from how freaking idyllic the share house is. The location of the body and the damage Lexie sustained were important clues, and I didn’t, you know, enjoy reading that part, but my friend was right, it wasn’t too gross. I borrowed The Likeness from a friend who’d read it, loved it, and promised me it would be suspenseful and not too gory. Someone, somewhere thinks they’ve murdered Lexie, and that person is going to see “Lexie” walking around like nothing’s happened… ![]() ![]() It’s this curiosity that compels Cassie and the other investigators, and this pulls the reader too. The cops are all constantly aware that this likeness is a huge, almost miraculous break to solve the case, and it’s something no one has ever been able to do before. It’s a bit of a stretch, but the wild premise works because the characters all know it’s just so insanely unlikely. ![]() The premise of Tana French’s The Likeness is almost too unbelievable: A murder victim is found who looks exactly like undercover investigator Cassie Maddox. ![]()
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