In the Woods

In the Woods by Tana French
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is more of psychological thriller than detective story since the more interesting parts of the story happen in the protagonist--Rob's--head. It's a story about friendships, the close kind that only occur at certain times of your life and rarely more than once--where two or three of you are so in sync you feel like they are an extension of you. And how those friendships inevitably ends, due to moving, death, growing up, falling out. The mystery gets solved but questions still remain and I actually like they do--it lets the book haunt you after it ends.

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In some ways grief anonymizes as powerfully as a Greek tragedy mask, cut in others it pares people down to the essential.

People need a moral code, to help them make decisions.

the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.

All these private, parallel dimensions, underlying such an innocuous little estate; all these self-contained worlds layered into the same space.

Sometimes I think about the sly, flickering line that separates being spared from being rejected.