Chopin itibaren Bijulia, Ramgarh, Jharkhand 829122, Hindistan itibaren Bijulia, Ramgarh, Jharkhand 829122, Hindistan

Bu benim en sevdiğim fantastik kitaplardan biri! uzun bir okuma, ama her zaman değer. her sayfada her zaman heyecan verici bir şey var!

Çok iyi. Keşke hikaye daha uzun olsaydı.

#2 in the Flavia de Luce series. In this second book, the plot isn't as tight as the first book and wandered around quite a bit. And Flavia seems to run circles around the police who are investigating a murder--making them almost irrelevant. The narrative is also a bit forced at times. In spite of those minor complaints, I absolutely enjoy Flavia as a character. Her quirky view of life and her precocious knowledge of all things chemical just delight me. This book is far from perfect and I hope Bradley continues to work on the series to make it better. But I will always be a fan of Flavia de Luce and her delightful family. Favorite lines: It's always best to announce one's self heartily when trespassing. To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel. There's something about pottering with poisons that clarifies the mind. Seen from the air, the male mind must look rather like the canals of Europe, with ideas being towed along well-worn towpaths by heavy-footed dray horses. There is never any doubt that they will, despite wind and weather, reach their destinations by following a simple series of connected lines. But the female mind, even in my limited experience, seems more of a vast and teeming swamp, but a swamp that knows in an instant whenever a stranger--even miles away--has so much as dipped a single toe into her waters. People who talk about this phenomenon, most of whom know nothing whatsoever about it, call it "woman's intuition."

Beverly Cleary was one of my favorite authors as a kid! I had to include these on the list!

absolutely loved it. what a journey.

This book fell short of any complexity I was looking for, but it was definitely entertaining throughout. Had it not been for a book club choice, I would have never picked up a book like this and I am better for having read it as I can now appreciate the genre of really-complex-murder-case-turned-self-discovery-vehicle-for-protagonist-at-the-proverbial-fork-in-the-road. A good, quick read. Just shut off the problem-solving brain.