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So, for my Tana French people, I have to pass on these little tibits somebody shared on Tumblr. Um.
"She knows exactly what happened in the woods but isn’t going to tell us yet (if ever)"
I mean, is this news to everyone or just to me? But of course she does. I have long suspected that she actually does, and excuse me while I feel entirely vindicated about all of the critics who felt the unresolved nature of In the Woods was lazy. She has said that she couldn't come up with a way for Rob to come across the answer that felt true to the character and couldn't come up with a way for the answer to come to him that didn't feel all deus ex machina, and when she said that I wondered if it was possible she actually had worked out what happened and just didn't feel it was best for the story to give it away.
I'm kind of, I don't know, equally excited and uneasy about it and would probably be completely okay with her never revealing what happened, but if she was ever going to I think waiting quite a while to do it was the right thing to do. I just don't want Rob Ryan's entire story defined by those events, unless it has a very different, possibly more healthy resonance with where she might take him next if/when she makes him a main character again.
I really can't believe I haven't cracked open Broken Harbor yet, but I'm in the middle of a couple trilogies I think I want to finish first.
"She knows exactly what happened in the woods but isn’t going to tell us yet (if ever)"
I mean, is this news to everyone or just to me? But of course she does. I have long suspected that she actually does, and excuse me while I feel entirely vindicated about all of the critics who felt the unresolved nature of In the Woods was lazy. She has said that she couldn't come up with a way for Rob to come across the answer that felt true to the character and couldn't come up with a way for the answer to come to him that didn't feel all deus ex machina, and when she said that I wondered if it was possible she actually had worked out what happened and just didn't feel it was best for the story to give it away.
I'm kind of, I don't know, equally excited and uneasy about it and would probably be completely okay with her never revealing what happened, but if she was ever going to I think waiting quite a while to do it was the right thing to do. I just don't want Rob Ryan's entire story defined by those events, unless it has a very different, possibly more healthy resonance with where she might take him next if/when she makes him a main character again.
I really can't believe I haven't cracked open Broken Harbor yet, but I'm in the middle of a couple trilogies I think I want to finish first.