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Flavia de Luce, the eleven year old sleuth and chemist obsessed with poison, meets famous TV star and puppeteer, Rupert Porson and his assistant Nialla, who are stranded in their broken down van. They agree to put on a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk for the residents of Bishop's Lacey and Flavia swings into action to help set it up. During the matinee performance the audience realizes the "Jack" puppet looks liked five year old Robin Inglesby who was found hanging in the woods a few years
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3.5 stars.
It's been a while since I read the first book in this series, but I do remember being a bit more attached to the characters in that read than I experience with this sequel. Flavia is still an adorable and precocious girl with insatiable curiosity, but something about the story just held me at arm's length.
The setup for the mystery was very clever and there was a decent plot woven around a series of clue discoveries. The characters did seem a bit caricatured and unpredictable, making t ...more
It's been a while since I read the first book in this series, but I do remember being a bit more attached to the characters in that read than I experience with this sequel. Flavia is still an adorable and precocious girl with insatiable curiosity, but something about the story just held me at arm's length.
The setup for the mystery was very clever and there was a decent plot woven around a series of clue discoveries. The characters did seem a bit caricatured and unpredictable, making t ...more
There's something truly enchanting about Flavia. I love this little wise girl, with her penchant for poisonous chemistry, her way of sounding and acting older and wiser than her age, her habit of tormenting her sisters with poison (they deserve it), her confidence, her way of poking her nose where it definitely doesn't belong, her morbid fascination with death and putrefaction. She can't exist in real life, of course, not really. If she did, she'd probably get on my nerves. People are not so fre
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Jan 07, 2019
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Die Flavia-Bücher sind immer sehr unterhaltsam, weil Flavia so unterhaltsam ist.
Die Mordfälle bleiben einem leider nie so im Gedächtnis... bzw wer der Mörder ist, ist oft gar nicht so sehr von Belang für die Geschichte. (Und da verstehe ich auch die vielen Vergleiche mit Agatha Christie nicht. Bei Agatha Christie ist es essentiell wer der Mörder ist und warum, und durch das "OOOOH!"-Erlebnis am Ende vergisst man das bei ihr auch nicht mehr.)
Dafür ein schönes Zeitportrait aus dem England der fr ...more
Die Mordfälle bleiben einem leider nie so im Gedächtnis... bzw wer der Mörder ist, ist oft gar nicht so sehr von Belang für die Geschichte. (Und da verstehe ich auch die vielen Vergleiche mit Agatha Christie nicht. Bei Agatha Christie ist es essentiell wer der Mörder ist und warum, und durch das "OOOOH!"-Erlebnis am Ende vergisst man das bei ihr auch nicht mehr.)
Dafür ein schönes Zeitportrait aus dem England der fr ...more
I still love Flavia. The second in the series takes a bit longer to get into the mystery, but it's still a page turner. Happy I already have the third to start on soon.
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Flavia is certainly a precocious kid, and seemingly wise beyond her years. Her fascination with chemistry is amusing even if the descriptions get a bit tired (like the author is giving the reader a mini-lecture on chemistry). I do find the cast of characters rather colorful and entertaining, but the mystery itself is rather dull.
Oct 07, 2012
Candy
marked it as to-read
Jun 13, 2016
Jirrine
marked it as wishlist
Aug 26, 2017
Lena
marked it as to-read
Feb 16, 2019
Carol
marked it as to-read
