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A review by eileen_daly_boas
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
5.0
No spoilers.
Blurb: the best book in the series as of 2013. Hands down.
Longer version: While usually you could read the Inspector Gamache books out of order, I'd discourage it. This installment should be read after The Brutal Telling. There's three interlocked stories, spanning centuries, and this is such a gorgeously constructed book, that it's easy to forget that it's also the most beautifully written. There are a few too many characters to track, but the slight off-kilter confusion of having so much to follow is absolutely appropriate to the PTSD-stricken characters. The almost painfully beautiful rendering of wintertime Quebec City linked with both the violent distant history of the 7-year's War and a recent tragedy is so wonderfully and artfully balanced that it was nearly impossible for me to put down. (And I should add that it is usually very easy for me to put down even a very good book) I could feel the words of the story send out little feelers of emotion that grabbed me and tightened around my heart. I think I held my breath for about 50 pages. At no point did this wonderful, 3-part mystery let me down. It was also funny and sweet and sad and thought-provoking.
Blurb: the best book in the series as of 2013. Hands down.
Longer version: While usually you could read the Inspector Gamache books out of order, I'd discourage it. This installment should be read after The Brutal Telling. There's three interlocked stories, spanning centuries, and this is such a gorgeously constructed book, that it's easy to forget that it's also the most beautifully written. There are a few too many characters to track, but the slight off-kilter confusion of having so much to follow is absolutely appropriate to the PTSD-stricken characters. The almost painfully beautiful rendering of wintertime Quebec City linked with both the violent distant history of the 7-year's War and a recent tragedy is so wonderfully and artfully balanced that it was nearly impossible for me to put down. (And I should add that it is usually very easy for me to put down even a very good book) I could feel the words of the story send out little feelers of emotion that grabbed me and tightened around my heart. I think I held my breath for about 50 pages. At no point did this wonderful, 3-part mystery let me down. It was also funny and sweet and sad and thought-provoking.