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katefoiles 's review for:
The Long Way Home
by Louise Penny
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 👍🏻