Read: March 31- April 3, 2012
read in 4 days
pages: 364
Once again Flavia is up to her old antics. Helping solve mysterious happenings and deaths before the police even have a chance to piece things together. She manages to be the first one on the scene of the crime every time. Most times she stumbles upon them while she is out investigating other goings on that she has decided she needs to know more about. She has an incredible thirst for knowledge and an affinity for poisons that while she is only 11 years old her ability to whip up any number of poisons whether for joke or to save the life of someone to counteract another poison already working I would never want to cross her. Too bad her sisters have not figured this out yet.
She's a spunky mixture of Sherlock Holmes and Watson all in one. I'll follow her anywhere her adventures take me as long as the books continue because the stories never fail to entertain. I highly recommend the series to anyone who enjoys a good mystery that unravels slowly through the book and in the mind of this smart little girl who manages to gain access to private knowledge and get into the confidences of the towns folk by any scheme necessary. She is also not above the more than occasional break in to discover what she needs to solve her mystery. Because they are just that, HER mysteries NOT the police's investigations.
Best quote in the book: "I am quite firm in my belief that poisons were put upon the earth in the first place to be discovered - and put to good use - by those of us with the wits, but not necessarily the physical strength to..." ~ Flavia
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