24 Festive Tasks: Door 13 – Advent, Book:
Read a pastiche, a book authorized by a deceased author’s estate, the 4th book in a series, a book with the word “four” in the title, a book featuring four siblings, or a book with a wreath, pines or fir trees on the cover.)
Turns out I already read my book for this square!
On a related note, color me somewhat less impressed than I expected to be — this is yet another insanely popular series that, as it turns out, I won’t be rushing to continue. There’s some really good and insightful writing in the later parts of the book, but the beginning is dominated by cliché and long too-cutesy-to-be-true passages strongly reminiscent of the worst of cozy mystery writing, and equally as importantly, with the exception of Gamache himself (and one or two of the villagers), I found few characters I really cared about … or could even be bothered to like and root for.
Original post:
ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/2003008/24-festive-tasks-door-13-advent-book
