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This Was a Heck No Times Two

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

June 21, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

Seriously…I see that some of you all liked/loved this one but I am baffled. This is up there with “The Catcher in the Rye” with most loathsome young adult character I have read in like decades. Flavia is dancing towards being a psychopath. I would have brained her for the crap she was doing to her two sisters. And all of them were just the most dysfunctional family ever. I can’t even tell you much about the murder. Someone was murdered. Flavia “investigated”. Bah. At […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Young Adult Tagged With: alan bradley, Flavia de Luce #1, mystery, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Young Adult

Classic's CBR11 Review No:134 · Genres: Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: alan bradley, Flavia de Luce #1, mystery, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Young Adult ·
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Precocious 11 year old to the rescue

November 28, 2017 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

I am late to the Flavia de Luce train, but a random comment about the series that I came across somewhere intrigued me enough to request this book from the library.  While I didn’t up loving this book, it wasn’t bad.  It’s set in 1950s Britain, and Flavia is a precocious 11 year old girl who lives with her father and two older sisters; her mother passed away some time ago, but she she is far from forgotten.  Her family is rather eccentric and Flavia […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: alan bradley, cbr9, Flavia de Luce #1, YA mystery

Mikki Blu's CBR9 Review No:93 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: alan bradley, cbr9, Flavia de Luce #1, YA mystery ·
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