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A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny

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kjhanney's review

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mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix

2.0

caliseales's review

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lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

meghan_plethoraofpages's review

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4.0

3.5

My second Louise Penny book, and it's slow moving. I'm so interested because it's got such a following, but these first two were really hard to get into. It took me 2-3 times to even get started. I'm going to continue since Book 4 seems to be where it picks up. Also, the Currently Reading podcast is doing a deep dive through all of them, so I'm keeping up with them. Good mystery, better core character development. I'll continue.

abbymac99's review

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3.0

Like it’s predecessor, this Armand Gamache book is a classic, straightforward mystery that is cozy and more light hearted (for a book about a murder lol). Wasn’t able to guess the ending completely which is always a plus with mystery’s but I also think the intense details and vagueness went a little far in this one. I found myself thinking “ok get to the point” and wanting to skip to the end a couple different times. Also one of the characters is described as overweight (to put lightly compared to the authors choice of words) and the way that detail in particular was conveyed in the book was repeatedly really uncomfortable and over the top and unnecessary

I also had not realized that the setting and characters for this series are the same throughout all 17+ books. That is interesting to me and for this 2nd book I think it was fun but I can’t really imagine following the same small, specific, and unique set of characters through that many different mystery plot lines?

missyjohnson's review against another edition

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2.0

So glad that i did not start reading the series in order as this was number 2 as i may not have continued the series after reading this one. The descriptions of Three Pines were over the top fantasy/perfect place and the people living there were a complete caricature. So much focus placed on Clara made it seem as if she were the main character instead of Gamache. I think that Louise Penny certainly matured in her storytelling as the series progressed. I hated the interactions between Ruth and Olivier in this book. I figured out CC’s killer early on and who knew as well. There was some interesting info about Eleanor of Aquatine but that was about it. I will likely go to the next in the series just to find out about agent Nichols and agent Lemeiux.