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The Likeness

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The Likeness	label	The Likeness
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The Likeness	comment	Cassie Maddox, Lexie Madison. Live detective, dead girl. Same face. Wait, what?The Likeness is a 2008 novel by Irish author Tana French, the second in her Dublin Murder Squad series. Cassie Maddox, a Dublin detective still wrecked from her last case (which is the subject of French's previous novel, In the Woods), is called to what looks to be a rather peaceful cottage, except it's also a crime scene. A dead girl lies on the floor. She looks exactly like Cassie. What's more, she's carrying ID that identifies her as Lexie Madison, an alias that Cassie once used years ago.Flash forward a few chapters, and Cassie's gone undercover as Lexie, pretending that Lexie was merely knocked unconscious, and begun living with Lexie's housemates, four English postgrads at Trinity College Dublin (Cassie's boss derisively refers to them as the Fantastic Four). Cassie lives Lexie's life for some time, trying to find out whoever Lexie actually was and why she ended up dead. (Yes, Cassie is pretending to be a woman who pretended to be a woman whom Cassie once pretended to be.) But the further she investigates, the more Cassie realizes that she might like Lexie's life more than her own - which will wreck her head even more than when she started.
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The Likeness / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
The Likeness / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Rob Ryan, Cassie's former partner and the protagonist of French's first novel In the Woods.
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The Likeness / int_1badfb3a	type	The Heart
The Likeness / int_1badfb3a	comment	The genius of Lexie, according to Cassie, was that she saw the original four, she understood that they needed a fifth, and turned herself into The Heart to complete their version of the Five-Man Band.
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The Likeness / int_21889507	type	A House Divided
The Likeness / int_21889507	comment	A House Divided: The Fantastic Four. Everything seems perfect to outsiders, but among them, not so much.
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The Likeness / int_21cf9301	type	Family of Choice
The Likeness / int_21cf9301	comment	Family of Choice: A tragic deconstruction. The five literally considered themselves a family and fully intended to grow old together without forming outside connections, leading to Lexie's murder when her friends found out she was attempting to sell her share of Whitethorn House, which would have lead to their eviction.
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The Likeness / int_26764512	type	I Just Want to Have Friends
The Likeness / int_26764512	comment	I Just Want to Have Friends: While to some extent this applies to the Fantastic Four as a whole given they were all lonely and came from less than ideal circumstances before meeting each other, it especially applies to Daniel. He's very eccentric and by his own admission, doesn't make friends easily, to the point he considers the rest of the group the only people he's ever loved in his entire life. This is why he was willing to let one of them to die to protect their home and the others.
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The Likeness / int_30adeff3	type	Defective Detective
The Likeness / int_30adeff3	comment	Defective Detective: Par for the course in Tana French's work. Cassie is a victim of recent trauma, which exacerbates preexisting issues with the boundary between fiction and reality which may or may not date back to the sudden death of her parents when she was very young. Frank has similar issues, which recently led to the breakup of his marriage; it's frequently noted that undercover detective work comes at great psychological and personal cost, destroying relationships and compromising sanity.
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The Likeness / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Likeness / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: While Cassie is shaken up by the experience of having gone too deep in Lexie's life and being forced to kill Daniel, she doesn't really suffer any major consequences for the incident and accepts Sam's marriage proposal, concluding that while she wants to go back to Murder Squad, she can live without it if it means being happy with Sam. The remaining members of the Fantastic Four are later shown to have drifted apart, but while their current lives aren't exactly the greatest, they are ultimately livable and the implication is they will be able to move on and possibly even forget what happened.
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The Likeness / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
The Likeness / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Cassie throughout the book. This is, of course, an occupational hazard of working Undercover.
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The Likeness / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
The Likeness / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: Daniel, all the way.
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The Likeness / int_44c279ae	type	Guilt-Ridden Accomplice
The Likeness / int_44c279ae	comment	Guilt-Ridden Accomplice: Oh God, the novel is full of them. However, Cassie correctly guesses that Justin is the weak link. Cassie sees herself as an accomplice, in a way:
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The Likeness / int_4ae13674	type	To Know Him, I Must Become Him
The Likeness / int_4ae13674	comment	To Know Him, I Must Become Him: Technically, it's the premise of the book.
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The Likeness / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Likeness / int_4b39c18	comment	Taking the Heat: While it was Justin who actually stabbed Lexie, it's Daniel who confesses and ultimately ends up with the blame. However, she could have survived, had Daniel not lied about her already being dead when they found her. So in a way, it was him.
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The Likeness / int_5076ccdb	type	You Say Tomato
The Likeness / int_5076ccdb	comment	You Say Tomato: Cassie frequently makes notes of the accents of others: her boyfriend Sam has a country accent, being from Galway; her boss Frank has an inner-city Dublin accent; Justin's voice has 'a Belfast tinge;' and Rafe cultivates a 'lazy English sneer.' Lexie's accent is described as 'old fashioned County Dublin,' probably picked up from a television show given that Lexie was actually Australian.
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The Likeness / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
The Likeness / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Rafe spends the second half of the novel drunk. He's not a very nice drunk.
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The Likeness / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Likeness / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: While Rafe is often surly and insensitive in his interactions with the group (especially when he gets drunk), he does raise some good points occasionally and was in fact completely right about Daniel being suspicious and essentially letting Lexie die instead of just calling in an ambulance to save her.
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The Likeness / int_7a82c3d2	type	All Love Is Unrequited
The Likeness / int_7a82c3d2	comment	All Love Is Unrequited: Between the Fantastic Four. Justin's in love with Rafe, Abby's in love with Daniel, and neither of them have their feelings reciprocated. Doesn't stop them from having comfort sex, though.
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The Likeness / int_85f0f0fb	type	World of Snark
The Likeness / int_85f0f0fb	comment	World of Snark: To a lesser extent, everyone else: Cassie, Cassie-as-Lexie, and Frank. Abby has her snarky moments, too.
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The Likeness / int_8ce49f80	type	Friends Are Chosen, Family Aren't
The Likeness / int_8ce49f80	comment	Friends Are Chosen, Family Aren't: None of the housemates are close to their biological families.
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The Likeness / int_906d5d1f	type	Quirky Household
The Likeness / int_906d5d1f	comment	Quirky Household: Cassie points out that the five of them, while not a perfect Five-Man Band, are definitely some kind of family, made all the more poignant by the fact that none of the five have real families of their own. Cassie doesn't, either. The genius of Lexie, according to Cassie, was that she saw the original four, she understood that they needed a fifth, and turned herself into The Heart to complete their version of the Five-Man Band. They turn into a Dysfunctional Family by the novel's end. You could argue that they are a Five-Man Band - Daniel as The Leader, Lexie as The Heart, Justin as The Smart Guy and Rafe and Abby sharing both The Lancer and The Big Guy.
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The Likeness / int_92587498	type	Five-Man Band
The Likeness / int_92587498	comment	You could argue that they are a Five-Man Band - Daniel as The Leader, Lexie as The Heart, Justin as The Smart Guy and Rafe and Abby sharing both The Lancer and The Big Guy.
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The Likeness / int_974d246c	type	Be as Unhelpful as Possible
The Likeness / int_974d246c	comment	Be as Unhelpful as Possible: The Fantastic Four. They're all very polite and pleasant, but they actually don't give anything away, to Frank's ire.
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The Likeness / int_a2484b0e	type	The Beautiful Elite
The Likeness / int_a2484b0e	comment	The Beautiful Elite: The Fantastic Four, according to Cassie... Unless you're asking Frank.
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The Likeness / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
The Likeness / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Daniel comments that Lexie had "no understanding of action and consequence."
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The Likeness / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Likeness / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Out of the Fantastic Four, it's definitely Rafe.
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The Likeness / int_b2f26025	type	Genki Girl
The Likeness / int_b2f26025	comment	Genki Girl: Lexie. Cassie guesses that she takes on this identity deliberately so that she would have a role in the group:
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The Likeness / int_b6cc7fc0	type	Dysfunctional Family
The Likeness / int_b6cc7fc0	comment	They turn into a Dysfunctional Family by the novel's end.
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The Likeness / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Likeness / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: For the Fantastic Four, it's their house: they refuse to speak of Daniel's cousin, who wants to turn it into luxury apartments. This might be because Lexie was going to sell her share of the house to him.
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The Likeness / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
The Likeness / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: Sam and Frank, respectively.
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The Likeness / int_c2d6fc5e	type	Murder by Inaction
The Likeness / int_c2d6fc5e	comment	Murder by Inaction: Although Lexie was stabbed, it did not kill her immediately - she was still alive when Daniel found her. He let her bleed out and said he found her that way.
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The Likeness / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
The Likeness / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: This is ultimately revealed to be the reason behind a lot of Lexie's behavior. Her father states she lost her mother during the childbirth of her brother, which left her traumatized and afraid of getting in too deep with other people.
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The Likeness / int_ce8a5ed8	type	Starving Student
The Likeness / int_ce8a5ed8	comment	Starving Student: Abby and Lexie, before the Fantastic Five moved in together. Abby frequently points out that were it not for the house, she'd be 'living in a scary bedsit' in Ranelagh. When the Fantastic Four break up at the novel's end, that's exactly where she ends up.
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The Likeness / int_db0ffe92	type	Follow in My Footsteps
The Likeness / int_db0ffe92	comment	Follow in My Footsteps: The reason for the tension between Rafe and his father.
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The Likeness / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Likeness / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Cassie eventually discovers that people have been vandalizing the house for a long while, and that there is a long-held grudge on the part of Glensheky villagers against the March family (and by extension, anyone living in the March house) for being cruel landowners, with one particular story about how one March possibly got a village girl pregnant and eventually killed her decades ago. Ultimately however, the vandal was not involved with Lexie's death.
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The Likeness / int_dea1fec3	type	PullingTheThread
The Likeness / int_dea1fec3	comment	Pulling the Thread: Lexie hated onions, a fact Cassie didn't know until after the others remark on how strange it is that she's happily chowing down on seconds of a dish with onions in it. She plays it off as side effects from her antibiotics, but Daniel figures out she must be a fake anyway.
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The Likeness / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
The Likeness / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: The plot contains very direct, and likely intentional, similarities to Donna Tartt's The Secret History.
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The Likeness / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Likeness / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Daniel March, of Henry Winter from The Secret History.
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The Likeness / int_ec4b148	type	Old, Dark House
The Likeness / int_ec4b148	comment	Old, Dark House: The house that Cassie moves into, Whitethorn House, is definitely one of these.
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The Likeness / int_f27ec906	type	Identical Stranger
The Likeness / int_f27ec906	comment	Identical Stranger: Cassie and Lexie were both this to each other, with "Lexie" using the resemblance to assume Cassie's undercover identity and Cassie later taking over the identity again to find out who killed her.
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The Likeness / int_f6b30338	type	Murder Is the Best Solution
The Likeness / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: When Daniel aims his gun at Cassie, Cassie shoots back, killing him. Later, Frank says to Cassie that he had chosen "suicide by cop," and that Cassie had no other choice.
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The Likeness / int_fb4c41b4	type	"Friends" Rent Control
The Likeness / int_fb4c41b4	comment	"Friends" Rent Control: Justified; Daniel inherited Whitethorn House from an uncle.
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