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A review by verumsolum
All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny
5.0
Another wonderful Gamache book from Louise Penny! It has a balance of the character depth that she writes so well with a case ending in very tense circumstances. Those circumstances were so tense at one point that I wondered if they would mean , but they didn't.
It was a little different spending almost the entire book not just outside of Three Pines, but outside of Quebec, and even outside of Canada. (Given the cover, it's not really a spoiler to say that it's mostly set in Paris.) But we got to see a lot of the Gamache family and had appearances (mostly brief) from a number of familiar characters from past books.
I also appreciate that Louise Penny, in her acknowledgements section, straight out lets us know about a change she made: it's a minor one, and it conflicts with something she wrote earlier in the series. But that she is so up front and honest about that that I feel valued as a reader: she could have "swept it under the rug" and hoped we wouldn't notice, but she did us the courtesy of acknowledging the change within the book itself. That respect for her readers is one of the reasons that I am more loyal a reader of Louise Penny's books than any other author's.
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the end of the seriesIt was a little different spending almost the entire book not just outside of Three Pines, but outside of Quebec, and even outside of Canada. (Given the cover, it's not really a spoiler to say that it's mostly set in Paris.) But we got to see a lot of the Gamache family and had appearances (mostly brief) from a number of familiar characters from past books.
I also appreciate that Louise Penny, in her acknowledgements section, straight out lets us know about a change she made: it's a minor one, and it conflicts with something she wrote earlier in the series. But that she is so up front and honest about that that I feel valued as a reader: she could have "swept it under the rug" and hoped we wouldn't notice, but she did us the courtesy of acknowledging the change within the book itself. That respect for her readers is one of the reasons that I am more loyal a reader of Louise Penny's books than any other author's.