the reader of books

So many things going on here -- wine theft, three disparate murders, secret nazi love affairs, old people wandering around with Alzheimer's, medical scares, three or four burgeoning romances, unrequited crushes, family secrets. It was a bit much.

Once again, I preferred almost all of the characters over the two main ones, Marine and Antoine, who I find to be annoying and/or boring. I wish there was a spin-off featuring the dandy wine thief turned expert police consultant. And are Frenchmen really that emotionally volatile? Almost all the male characters were, at some point, on the verge of or actually bursting into tears.

That being said, I do love forbidden wartime romances (which was just one of about twenty plot lines going on) so that was fun..