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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
three pines resident peter has gone missing. clara's and peter's pasts are revealed a bit more, particularly their time at art college, as his path through europe and back to canada is traced.
adventurous
emotional
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
while this was not my favorite book of the series, the ending had me 🫨
armand has retired to three pines, but gets swept back into police business (obviously, as there are like 19 books in this series and i'm only on #10, this will be the norm unless they filter him out but lets not speculate here) when clara's husband peter doesn't return after their separation. this takes clara, myrna, jean-guy (who at one point the narrator accidentally called jean GUY and it wasn't caught! man i love audiobook slips almost as much as i love finding typos), and armand, and occasionally ruth & reine-marie (whose name i had to look up how to spell because i've only ever done these books on audio lol), all around canada (i imagine as i don't know canadian geography) trying to figure out where peter has gone. it leads them to new and old characters, new and old places, and through an increasingly bleaker looking journey to see if they can find peter.
in my mind this was a road trip book of myrna, clara, jean-guy, and armand, in an almost comical/less serious way. coming off of "how the light gets in" this is definitely more fluffy (which was is up for the painting! what book is armand reading! what's ruth doing!), which in this week of my life actually didn't end up being a bad thing. i didn't have to worry about learning about 17th century canadian history or keeping straight the names of every sûreté du québec employee or remembering a plot point from six books ago. but it wasn't as compelling as some of the other books in the series - it felt very internal if that makes sense.
ANYWAY now that i've written my longest review ever (with the most parentheses in recorded history probably) i'm gonna figure out what to read next 👍🏻
armand has retired to three pines, but gets swept back into police business (obviously, as there are like 19 books in this series and i'm only on #10, this will be the norm unless they filter him out but lets not speculate here) when clara's husband peter doesn't return after their separation. this takes clara, myrna, jean-guy (who at one point the narrator accidentally called jean GUY and it wasn't caught! man i love audiobook slips almost as much as i love finding typos), and armand, and occasionally ruth & reine-marie (whose name i had to look up how to spell because i've only ever done these books on audio lol), all around canada (i imagine as i don't know canadian geography) trying to figure out where peter has gone. it leads them to new and old characters, new and old places, and through an increasingly bleaker looking journey to see if they can find peter.
in my mind this was a road trip book of myrna, clara, jean-guy, and armand, in an almost comical/less serious way. coming off of "how the light gets in" this is definitely more fluffy (which was is up for the painting! what book is armand reading! what's ruth doing!), which in this week of my life actually didn't end up being a bad thing. i didn't have to worry about learning about 17th century canadian history or keeping straight the names of every sûreté du québec employee or remembering a plot point from six books ago. but it wasn't as compelling as some of the other books in the series - it felt very internal if that makes sense.
ANYWAY now that i've written my longest review ever (with the most parentheses in recorded history probably) i'm gonna figure out what to read next 👍🏻
My least favorite of all of the Gamache books I've read so far, which is a huge disappointment because the one right before this was one of the best. This is a dreary, drawn-out book full of pretentious navel-gazing about "art" and artists. It was insufferable.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
mysterious
relaxing
medium-paced
dark
emotional
mysterious
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:
Yes
While I’m always happy to spend time with these characters, this was my least favorite of the Louise Penny Gamache books thus far. The plot was so far fetched and in some places, frankly ridiculous, that it was hard to take seriously. As always, there’s a gentle humor and the characters are so fully realized that they’re like people to me, which is what redeems the book (and of course I’ll read the next one).
Another good installation in the Inspector Gamache series. Takes place mostly outside of Three Pines. Lots of important happenings.