Ya
y, I hit my cannonball!
“I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.”
So this was the second Flavia de Luce mystery. This one had some pretty depressing elements, as it revolves primarily around a dead child and a beaten woman. But Flavia brings her humor to it, and the twisty mystery part was pretty good.
When a van breaks down in Bishop’s Lacy, Flavia is right there to help — well, to be nosy anyway. The van contains a well known puppeteer (Rupert) and his assistant/main actress (Nialla). Things seem fishy from the start, as Nialla acts strangely around Rupert and possesses an awful bruise. Flavia starts poking around, and ends up solving both a new mystery, and an old one that has haunted her town for years.
What cracks me up about these books is the juxtaposition between what Flavia does and doesn’t know. For instance, she rambles on at length about various poisons, chemicals, ways of death, etc. But she has to ask Dogger what an “affair” is, and when he answers with something like, “Oh, that’s when people become really good friends”, she then thinks, “that’s exactly what I thought!”. She’s too smart for her own good, in a lot of ways. But she makes for an interesting character!
Yay! Congratulations!!!!
Congratulations!
You’re crazy. Happy Cannonball now you can fully enjoy your ski vacation this weekend knowing you’ve bested everyone lol
You mean my books & wine in the hot tub vacation, right?
Happy Cannonball! Are you going for another Quintuple this year or are you going to take it “easy” and only review 208? ;)
Haha — I’m not sure. I’m definitely going to try to tackle some of the bigger books on my TBR shelf, now that I’ve hit 52. Might slow me down a bit…
Happy Cannonball. I bow to your superior fastness at reading and reviewing.
Woah! I hadn’t looked at the leaderboard in a while so I didn’t know you getting close already. Congratulations!!!!
I just mentioned to someone yesterday that you’d probably cannonball today. I’m seriously impressed with your reviewing skills. Writing reviews stresses me out, but anything that makes you feel like you’re saying FU to cancer is worth some stress, right?
Woohoo! Congratulations on your Cannonball! :) Bring on the bigger books, they need reading and reviewing too.
Congrats on your cannonball, I bow down in awe!
Congrats! I have no clue how you do it, but tres impressive!
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Amazing. Congratulations to you!
Congratulations!!
CANNONBALL!!! Congratulations. I need to continue the Flavia series, as I greatly enjoyed the first one.