I came across this series by accident and that's how it started and then I realized that I enjoy YA books - how surprised I was! The books are written with passion, the language and writing style is great, plot surprising and main characters engaging. Overally, very good and delicious pieces of lig...
This is the second in a series of mysteries featuring 11 year old Falvia DeLuce as a precocious amateur detective and busybody. While I enjoyed the setting, story and style of the first book, it was somewhat tainted for me by the character Flavia who while fun was also unbelieveably knowledgable ab...
I do love Flavia and her adventures around town. If you enjoyed the first one, you'll probably like this one as well. Flavia sticks a little closer to home but finds just as much trouble. If anything, I think she becomes a little more fleshed out as a character. Less of a caricature of the preco...
Yes, Flavia de Luce is a precocious little sleuth but it took until halfway through the book before one of the characters keeled over and the pace picked up. I found the story slow going until then. If the first half of the book was as good as the second I would have given it four stars. I hadn't re...
Wonderful continuation of Flavia’s exploits as a sleuth. Favourite quote:“’You are unreliable, Flavia,’ he said.‘Utterly unreliable.’Of course I was! It was one of the things I loved most about myself.” (page 112)
One of our favourite sleuths, 11 year-old Flavia de Luce, is at it again solving the murder at a show given by a famous puppeteer as well as solving the death a few years ago of a young boy. The plot is thin and highly implausible but somehow that doesn’t prevent us from enjoying this book and marv...
I can't really explain it, but I really like this series. I don't read books like this and yet here I am with book two under my belt and looking forward to book three. I actually liked this book better than the first book The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. I was talked into reading the first...
Boy there was some darkness going on in The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag! I liked this mystery more than that in The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. I liked the darkness and the menace in this book. There was very little light, very little happiness. You could almost feel the fog, and...
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