And this is where I leave you. I just cannot with any more Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels. It takes a while to me toss up my hands with authors I love and finally go, you know, it’s not me, it’s you. I gave up Dean Koontz, James Patterson, John Sandford, Kristin Hannah, Debbie Macomber, and this year got well and truly fed up with Joseph Delaney. And sometimes it is just the characters you get fed up with. You feel like you are on a hamster wheel with them and you get sick of no character growth and them just somehow being in a book that makes no sense. So I am giving up on reading Penny in the future, and will let one of my friends tell me if Gamache ever stops walking on water and being the last truly perfect man in Canada.
I said in one of my updates that Penny started writing this series a while back ago like a terrible Dan Brown novel (yeah, I stopped reading him too) and it’s just gotten so absurd. Does anyone remember what the first book was about? A kind man coming to a village that almost didn’t feel real. He got to meet these people and characters and he solved a murder. And then the whole thing turned cartoonish. Then it got absurd. And then sadly it went international. Heck, I should have given up this series when Penny and Hilary Clinton did their joint novel together.
I know this has gotten ranty, but honestly, this was terrible. It’s a sequel honestly to The Grey Wolf and it was awful. I don’t want to hear anymore about a man with two wolves inside of him. Shut up. I am sick of the duck, Ruth, the bare scattering of Three Pines we even get to enjoy anymore. I am tired of the international mess because not one thing in this book or the last several even made sense and I just don’t care anymore. The foreword by Penny trying to act like this book somehow was a premonition of the Trump Administration was just….I just want to read a murder mystery book. The political mess that Penny keeps writing about with the bad guys always focused on Gamache is laughable at this point. I just want to read a good book where there is no longer people talking in riddles, and there are no more endless stupid poems or even people randomly quoting them to each other! Just talk like normal people!
Skip this unless you want to read the 20th book in the series.
