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[quote=Anonymous]I am a fan of Louise Penny and have read all of her books.  I've seen her speak in person a couple of times.  She does a great job at those events, so if you are a fan and have a chance to attend one, I recommend it.

[b]However[/b], I read a comment (maybe on Goodreads?) about the short choppy sentences and incomplete sentences, and now I can't unsee those in her writing!  The commenter suggested that she's in need of a good editor, and I agree.  Here's an example of two consecutive paragraphs from A Better Man (2019):

"His gaze, Tracey saw with some alarm, wasn't angry.  Wasn't threatening.  Certainly wasn't frightened.  It was thoughtful.

Anger, rage, violence Tracey could handle.  But this was just confusing.  And off-putting.  And a little frightening."

This structure is throughout the book; this is not an isolated example.  I need to look back and see if she was doing this in the earlier books, and I didn't notice it at the time I read them.

I tried to read her recent book written with Hillary Clinton, and I could not finish it.  I will try again at some point.[/quote]

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