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jackiyork's review
4.0
I love these books but I am really mad this one ended on a cliffhanger! I have to wait a whole year for the next one!
kate_albers's review
4.0
Flavia de Luce, how much do I love you? And I have to say, I think this is one of Bradley's best yet. He wrote a mystery that constantly had me guessing and left us with a big cliff-hanger. I won't spoil it for you, but needless to say, I am excited about the next installment!
zoeythekat's review
3.0
The story was as fun and engaging as the rest in the series have been, however, this one had a few too many moving parts for my tastes. And everything was spoiled for me when (and spoiler alert here) in the end Flavia swallowed a diamond and I spent the rest of the day distressed about the retrieval process.
sankeym's review
4.0
In the fifth book of this charming series, 11-year old chemist Flavia de Luce turns up another nest of crime in 1951 Bishop's Lacey--local squabbles to loot the tomb of a 500 year old saint reveal not just the body of the missing church organist, but several local secrets, including more information on Flavia's own family. Bradley writes convincingly as a precocious preteen girl, while still allowing readers to figure out what the adults are doing that Flavia doesn't realize, as well as delivering on the very satisfying theme that the villains are always the people who talk down to bright children. With an ending that finally puts us on the path to finding out what happened to her mother, and a dawning maturity that will lead her to figure out what her father was doing during the war (and also explains more why so many odd things happen in a rural English village surrounding their estate).
therealkateclysm's review
4.0
Ir's becoming difficult to decide who I like more: Flavia de Luce or Sherlock Holmes!
ryanboros's review
3.0
If you like Flavia already, you like this one as well.
Significant game-changer going forward in the series.
Significant game-changer going forward in the series.
renny_reads's review
4.0
It was so nice to be reunited with Flavia! I've missed her. I hope Alan Bradley writes quickly because this book ended with a hum-dinger of a cliffhanger and I CANNOT WAIT for the next installment! GAH!!!
I can't even do a proper review because I am completely ecstatic over the last sentence of the book. I had wondered if it would come to this on multiple occasions, as throughout the series it seemed that perhaps it was what Bradley was moving toward. I am beyond excited to see where he takes the de Luce family from this juncture.
I can't even do a proper review because I am completely ecstatic over the last sentence of the book. I had wondered if it would come to this on multiple occasions, as throughout the series it seemed that perhaps it was what Bradley was moving toward. I am beyond excited to see where he takes the de Luce family from this juncture.
flashuu's review against another edition
4.0
It’s been awhile since I’ve read about wonderful little Flavia! This last one was quite the hoot. And that ending! Let out a little cheer in the passenger seat, I did.