How
can you not love Flavia de Luce? She is one of the most entertaining
characters I've ever encountered...an 11-year-old eccentric
chemist...doesn't that just sound delightful?! I read some other reviews
from people who didn't like Flavia because they felt like she was too
adult at some points and too childlike at others. For me, it was because
of this that I loved her so much. If she had been any older, she would
not have been nearly so funny. One word of caution: Flavia does do a
fair amount of mild swearing (I know, an 11-year-old!), but as awful as
it sounds, it really did seem to fit her personality.
The mystery
itself was suspenseful and gripping and mind-twisting. The man who is
murdered is a creep and a scoundrel, which always makes a murder mystery
a little easier to swallow.
The book is very British (I
think...I guess I don't know what really constitutes "very British") and
makes many Classical references, some of which I understood and some of
which I did not. I listened to the book, and the reader was excellent:
she WAS Flavia.
This review was written before the birth of this blog.
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