Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez itibaren Olebino, Yaroslavskaya oblast', Rusya, 152254
This is a great book. The text is really good and it does a great job of presenting a sensitive, complex subject in a way that a child (and an adult) can understand. However, I like the previous edition's illustrations better.
this book is pure smut and deserves negative stars. this is definitely the worst book i have ever read, and possibly the worst ever written.
This is the best Inspector Gamache book in the series so far! I stayed up until 1 am last night to finish it. That hasn't happened in a long time. Penny masterfully weaves three stories into one. Gamache is in Quebec City recuperating mentally and physically from a tragic terrorist plot in which four of his agents were killed, and he and Jean-Guy Beauvoir were critically injured. He's staying with his friend and mentor Emile Comeau when a well-known Quebecois citizen is found murdered in the basement of the Literary and History Library. Gamache acts as a consultant to the local police as this murder is investigated. Anglo and Quebecois political and cultural rivalries are brought to the forefront and questions about Samuel de Champlain's burial site are raised. The story of the terrorist plot is played out in Gamache's flashbacks, and by Beauvoir's narrative in Three Pines where he's been sent to unofficially reopen the case against Olivier who's been convicted of the Hermit's murder. As both Gamache and Beauvoir come to terms with the tragedy they've both survived, new facts emerge in both cases, and new dimensions of both characters are revealed.