Karen S. (MKSbooklady) reviewed on 8/31/2021 + 981 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

This book was either written, or published waaay too soon. I feel like Penny had an contract with her publisher to write so many books in so much time, and here it is. She apparently started this book in March of 2020-yet it starts off with miracle of miracles, a vaccination for Covid! Everyone has received it, yahoo!! And there are no side effects mentioned, no mask mandates, etc.,and life is again perfect in Three Pines, and the world. It was a little too soon, in my opinion. Maybe I'm just tired of the perfect life of Gamache and his friends and family. I found this to be the weakest of the 17 books. Not only written/published too soon, it is about 100 pages too long. Lots of meandering around figuring out who did what, and when and how. Lots of hot chocolate being doled out to all the cute children, whiskey to the conflicted adults. When your favorite character in a murder mystery is a duck, something is wrong.

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