Flavia de Luce is an eleven year-old Sherlock Holmes with a predilection for the dark side of rural crime and a hobby of poisons. I can understand why this bookFinally!

She loves science and mystery, despises her haughty clueless sisters, and is plotting to poison them and get away with it. There were moments when I had to put the book down or just rush ahead in order to avoid a passage that went on about something or other that just didn't hold my interest. Fu pubblicato in Gran Bretagna … I wanted to like this book, as much as the title appealed to me, but only finished out of a sense of duty, having bought the book based on the reviews rather than borrowing it. We will send you one e-mail a month notifying you of any hot new books announced or coming out, as well as any new additions to the site. We do our best to get everything listed but the occasional book gets by us. I really don't have time for library books, but sometimes I have to make an exception.I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that this book was available at my library translated to Swedish. I was horrified that I recommended this book to an Asian-American student earlier this year because of the things I had heard about it, and now I'm in the middle of it and came to that part. She has a passion for chemistry, especially poisons. I cannot abide Flavia de Luce - yes, the same Flavia de Luce that everyone else in the reading universe - or at least the subset of those who enjoy mysteries - loves, adores, enjoys.
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Instead, Flavia senses something delicious may come of it: adventure.Flavia de Luce is not your average eleven year old. #9 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)This book probably deserves 4 stars, but to me, as far as how much I enjoyed it, 5 stars baby!This book probably deserves 4 stars, but to me, as far as how much I enjoyed it, 5 stars baby!I really wanted to like this more then I ended up doing. So help me, God.An 11-year-old wunderkind detective who is obsessed with poison .



When mysterious crimes happen at the family home, she thrusts herself into solving them.When young Flavia de Luce, aspiring chemist, finds a body in the cucumber patch outside her father's house, she finds herself caught up in a web of deceit and murder...When young Flavia de Luce, aspiring chemist, finds a body in the cucumber patch outside her father's house, she finds herself caught up in a web of deceit and murder...Ignore the title, please, and go for the essence. On the day I finally begin my magnum opus on the world of the "girl detective" there will be an entire chapter devoted to the wonder that is Flavia de Luce. -- Inspector Hewitt to Flavia de Luce: budding sleuth, brilliant chemist, and diabolical eleven-year-old.On the day I finally begin my magnum opus on the world of the "girl detective" there will be an entire chapter devoted to the wonder that is Flavia de Luce. Her voice kept me finely tuned into hIf I were an eleven-year-old girl, I’d like to think I might resemble Flavia de Luce. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of I wanted to like this book, as much as the title appealed to me, but only finished out of a sense of duty, having bought the book based on the reviews rather than borrowing it. I found it to be rather predictable, long-winded and slightly dull at times. -- Inspector Hewitt to Flavia de Luce: budding sleuth, brilliant chemist, and diabolical eleven-year-old. For months my wife, Lisa, had been after me to read Alan Bradley's For months my wife, Lisa, had been after me to read Alan Bradley's I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that this book was available at my library translated to Swedish. From $4.69 . "—Charles Todd, author of The Ian Rutledge series "A wickedly clever story, a dead true and original voice, and an English country house in the summer: Alexander McCall Smith meets Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. She lives in a decaying mansion. maybe more disturbing than the mystery she is solving .

Adult preoccupations and values may confront Flavia, but they do not greatly impress her; by the story's end, the reader can only agree.A mystery about a precocious child, whom I would like to like, but suspect that she would not be enjoyable to be around. .

From $8.09 Alan Bradley From $9.29 Alan Bradley I'm done! I shall not read Bradley's novels in a box, or with a fox. Flavia, an 11-year-old with a chemistry lab, finds a corpse in a cucumber patch and applies the detective skills she learned plotting against her older sisters. That doesn't mean it's too difficult for young readers - since when is reading not supposed to offer any challenge?


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