I first read this five years ago and I didn’t understand why everyone loved Louise Penny’s Gamache series. I mean, the book was okay, but I didn’t like it enough to want to read the next book. 

Since then I’ve watched the Three Pines series on TV and it made the characters come alive for me in a way that usually happens in books. So now I’m reading them again. This time I started with the second in the series, then backtracked to the first. 

I definitely enjoyed it a lot more this time. I found the quirkiness of the characters appealing rather than annoying and cliched. I had only a vague memory of the plot so it all seemed fresh to me. I have come to love the village of Three Pines and look forward to reading more.