Speaking from Among the Bones

Again I love these books. They are so much fun. I am a little put off by a cliff hanger at the end. I MUST get the next book.

I think this is probably my favorite of the Flavia de Luce books so far. Flavia the semi-mad scientist - at least in her mind - is growing up. She of course solves the murder which her small village seems to such an attractant to. But here's the kicker...the last line reveals a MASSSIVE cliff-hanger which is that...well I suppose you wouldn't want me to tell you that.

Enjoy!

What's to be said about this book that I haven't said about the others? Flavia's her typical charming, precocious, incorrigible self. Perhaps a bit more clever than we've seen her before, definitely with less a sense of self-preservation than we've seen previously. Her sisters are a bit, more human? Or maybe Flavia's portraying them more honestly/more sympathetically. The financial pressures her father's under are more and more pressing, causing everyone to be a bit more realistic, it seems.

Still, that doesn't deter Flavia from doing her thing when a body is discovered. It's everything you want in a Flavia de Luce novel – very, very smart conclusion to this mystery.