The Long Way Home

I've loved Louise Penny's Armand Gamache books. I picked up one because the photograph on the cover was gorgeous. Found out it was a series so I found the first one and off I went. I am now caught up with the series and oh so sad. For one, to be done with the series (so far, hopefully another one will be forthcoming) and two this was, well, it was shocking.

Peter is missing and you know that something terrible must have happened to him to keep him away from Clara. So the entire time I'm dreading what they will find. Now, Peter was always my least favorite villager from Three Pines. I think he was meant to be the opposite of Clara and their balance kept each other in check, but still I always felt there was no balance there. I felt like Peter didn't deserve Clara and I was so proud of her when she asked him to leave.

All the books in this series have been slow burners, but this was the most extreme of all of them. It took so long to get anywhere and most of it seemed to be everyone staring at art, the same art, over and over for pages and pages.

But it was so twisted up I remained unsure the whole time. I couldn't imagine that Peter was dead, but I couldn't understand why he wouldn't return to Clara so I was in limbo the whole time and everything about the ending was unexpected to me.

Holy cow.