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The Long Way Home

Louise Penny

3.9 AVERAGE

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
emotional mysterious medium-paced

Well, that was sad.
emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Another wonderful book by Penny. I want to live in this world. 
emotional mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious relaxing 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

Loved the various field trip/road trip aspects with the Three Pines friends. But that ending really hit. Very unexpected and made me cry.

I have mixed feelings about how this one ends but it’s far from dry like some people were saying.
dark hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was a hard read. Where I couldn't stop reading the previous books of the series, I had to force myself to go on. It was soooo slow to all be resolved in the last few pages. Ugh! 

Again, another one I loved. I will have to give "The Beautiful Mystery" another go at some point, since I have loved the two following it.

Gamache gets asked to help find Peter Morrow, who has not returned home as expected -- a year to the date that Clara kicked him out. Clara asks, then rescinds the ask, then asks again -- and Gamache is drawn into an investigation he doesn't really want to do. He and his wife have retired to Three Pines, and have left all that behind -- and he is learning to live with his own demons, and doesn't want to go chasing someone else's.

More about art, and artists, and creativity and the lack of it. About filling the emptiness of the holes inside you. About slow death, real and artistic. The murders happen at the very end, and it is unbearably sad when you get there.