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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
funny
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
3.5 stars. Great setting for this one and I continue to enjoy the French Canadian atmospherics.
Another engaging and enjoyable mystery from Louise Penny that completely tricked me, yet again. And while this did deal somewhat with the nature of grief, as the others of hers I've read so, this also included considerations on the nature of contentment, too.
Although I missed Ruth. It needed more Ruth.
Although I missed Ruth. It needed more Ruth.
It hurts to not love a Gamache book! But this one was just not one I liked much. I ADORED the small little detail of the roof ridge! But the rest...bah. I didn't like the thin motivations, the years and years of hurt over one inconsequential thing that even a child would forget the next day. No, these people could carry hateful grudges over a dropped cookie! 95% of this story was a lot of spite and malice and meanness with no cause I could make sense of. Very thin. And Peter & Clara both act like petulant children for goodness sake. Honestly, I wasn’t rooting for anyone in this story! Maybe except Bean.
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
As you would have figured, I am binge-reading Louise Penny's Three Pines series.
About this one - I liked it. Liked it a lot. Very detailed insights into the characters - and one gets to see a lot more of Reine-Marie, who and Gamache are perhaps one of the nicest couples in literature. You cannot help but contrast Gamache and Reine-Marie with the other couples in the book, including the one we have already got to know very well.
Very observant portrait of a dysfunctional family. The writer understands. And is a very, very good writer. Some of the family feud scenes are bloody excellent!
So, 4/5? Why not 5? Well, the murder, and the murderer, are a bit meh. That's why. You'd have figured out by now that the murder is perhaps NOT THE MOST important part of the series. But that's all right by me.
About this one - I liked it. Liked it a lot. Very detailed insights into the characters - and one gets to see a lot more of Reine-Marie, who and Gamache are perhaps one of the nicest couples in literature. You cannot help but contrast Gamache and Reine-Marie with the other couples in the book, including the one we have already got to know very well.
Very observant portrait of a dysfunctional family. The writer understands. And is a very, very good writer. Some of the family feud scenes are bloody excellent!
So, 4/5? Why not 5? Well, the murder, and the murderer, are a bit meh. That's why. You'd have figured out by now that the murder is perhaps NOT THE MOST important part of the series. But that's all right by me.
The Morrow family was quite the family! Who killed Julia? The statue of her father, but how did it leave it’s humongous marble pedestal without a trace? Only Inspector Gamache can solve that mystery.