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 Jfranklin592262 | Sep 15, 2023 |  I read this in tandem with [b:The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements|7247854|The Disappearing Spoon And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements|Sam Kean|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1276468318s/7247854.jpg|8246153]. What a great combination. The adjective that comes to mind when I think of this is cozy. It reminded me of my own childhood, filled with fingerprinting kits, lust for chemistry sets and Sherlock Holmes books. Flavia is a spunky heroine, who is posed between the confidence that children have as a consequence of not yet knowing enough to feel insecure and the equally inaccurate easy dismissal of children by adults. This tension is expertly woven by Bradley, especially in the ideas of reference that Flavia has - her serious concerns that the adults around her consider her the prime suspect in the central murder (an idea both laughable to an adult, and familiar to anyone who was ever a preteen.) Yes, at times, the mystery is a bit weak and predictable, but a well written child protaganist in a book for adults is much more unusual than a good mystery. (  ) settingshadow | Aug 19, 2023 | A thoroughly enjoyable romp of a read, though it feels slightly overstuffed with self-consciously British eccentrics. The author is an anglophile Canadian and I did feel that perhaps a little paring back would've made this a better book. However it is a fun read and the 11 year old narrator Flavia is a fabulous character, who one morning stumbles across a dying man in the cucumber bed and single handedly sets out to solve the mystery, clear her father's name, and maintain the ongoing warfare with her older sisters. I have the next book but will read something else in between as I suspect the rather florid style should be taken in modest doses... (  ) Figgles | Aug 5, 2023 | Child teaches itself chemistry equations before the age of 10? The precocious child trope induces maximum eye-roll before I've reached the 10th page. Hard pass. blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 | I really enjoyed this book, Flavia is an amusing heroine who is very smart - although at times is still very young. The mystery is interesting and Flavia's attempts to solve it funny. ( ) funstm | Jul 4, 2023 | Ingår iPriserUppmärksammade listor
Under sommaren 1950 intrf̃far flera mystiska hñdelser p ̄den nedgn̄gna engelska herrgr̄den Buckshaw, dr̃ elvar̄iga Flavia de Luce bor med sin familj. P ̄trs̲keln till huset hittar man en dd̲ fḡel med ett frimr̃ke spetsat p ̄nb̃ben. Och lite senare, bland gurkorna i grn̲sakslandet, blir Flavia vittne till en de̲nde mans sista andetag. Fr̲ henne r̃ det hela mer spñnande ñ skrm̃mande och med sitt stora intresse fr̲ kemi och gift br̲jar Flavia genast nysta i saken. Jag n̲skar att jag kunde sg̃a att jag blev rd̃d, men det blev jag inte. Tvr̃tom. Det hr̃ var utan jm̃fr̲else det mest intressanta jag upplevt i hela mitt liv. Den bittra pajens st̲ma r̃ en ms̃terlig mysdeckare som av flera recensenter blivit jm̃fr̲d med klassiker av Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers och Arthur Conan Doyle. Imponerande som en detektiv och trollbindande som en galen vetenskapsman Flavia r̃ den mest l̃skvr̃da lilla tjej som nḡonsin lr̃t sig konsten att underhl̄la sig sjl̃v i ett stort, tomt hus. New York Times Book Review En grymt begv̄ad story, en klockren och originell bert̃tarrs̲t och en engelsk herrgr̄d om sommaren: Alexander McCall Smith mt̲er Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Snl̃la, snl̃la, herr Bradley, sg̃ att vi snart fr̄ trf̃fa Flavia igen! Laurie R. King Totalcharmig! Elvar̄iga Flavia de Luce visar sig vara en av de mest brd̄mogna, uppfinningsrika och ... tja, helt enkelt farligaste hjl̃tinnor som finns. Skurkar och storasystrar se upp! Lisa Gardner Alan Bradley r̃ fd̲d och uppvuxen i Kanada och var dr̃ yrkesverksam inom etermedia innan han gick i tidig pension fr̲ att br̲ja skriva. Fr̲ Den bittra pajens st̲ma vann Bradley ett Daggerpris fr̲ bs̃ta debutroman. I dag bor han p ̄Malta med sin fru och deras tv ̄sluga katter. [Elib] Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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The characters are very tropey......from the paragraph opening, where you find Flavia in the closet where her sisters have stuffed her, to the fact that she's a self taught chemist and her Father's a stamp collecter......screams overly British Nancy Drew meets Sherlock Holmes.
There were parts I enjoyed, but for the most part I felt the story dragged on a bit. The writer rambles needlessly and tries too hard to adopt a European prose, at times to the detriment of the story itself.
I will try one more from the series....mostly for Dogger, the only really interesting character.......but, unless it wows me, I doubt I will read the rest of this series. (