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Note sure if I expected too much from this book but my feelings about this story is very tepid at the moment. I do not have any affinity for any of the characters (in the slightest) and I'm halfway through. Sad.

I thought that my kid would get a little bogged down with the many characters, but he seems to be able to distinguish them all better than I do.

Only reading this because I really want to read Six of Crows and my weird reading personality is that I can't just pick up stories from the same universe without reading everything that comes before.

I am reading this for the third time, I know, but I have to because... the next installment is out :)

Just started this newest Louis Penny! The excitement is twofold: 1) I get to adventure with Armand Gamache again and 2) this Audible is narrated by Adams Sims! No one does Louis Penny novels better than Adams Sims. No one!

Perhaps this is a year of rereads because of extreme frugality. Not bad to start with rereads of Ms. Austen.

A third reread but this time on Audible. Rosamund Pike is such an excellent Jane Austen narrator.

So far a grim reminder than adolescent boys with a bit of Dark Lord soul in them are little gits.

Creepy, sad, and (did I mention creepy?) read so far but quite riveting too.

A surprisingly interesting read with a lot of depth... I just wish that there was more focus on the food.

Apart from the gripping story, the narrator is amazeballs! She does German, English, American, and French accents flawlessly. And she does grumpy men as perfectly as she does young, nubile twenty-somethings. Her excellence in narrating is evidenced by the fact that I never once feel like I am pulled out of the story to focus on the narration. It's seemless and effortless.

I find so often with Stephen King that with so man of his books, I never have great desire to get back into the book despite the interesting story. I need to consider why that it is the case.

Narration is a bit of a bust at the moment, however, narrators tend to grow on me as I listen. The story was threatening to be predictable but I just listened to a surprising twist. Still to early to tell but for now. at least it is keeping me interested.

I haven't read a book with this much dialogue in a long while so that's taking a little getting used to. Perhaps it's my age, but I am really enjoying the little I read about the parents in the book.

I'd forgotten how uproariously funny this books was. What an absolute treat!