A review by who_is_using_all_30_characters
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

0.0

0 stars. absolutely none. fuck this book. the majority of this book i spent hate-reading it. i get that you're gonna write about something in 1950 england, but just casually putting a bunch of very and overtly racist stuff with absolutely no external/built in critique is NOT it. i better not hear some bullshit about "accurately representing the time" you wrote an 11 year old that has an immense amount of knowledge of chemistry fuck outta here. if you include racism in your book, there should be an anti-racist point to it or else it's just reveling in a past where it was more acceptable to be overtly racist. there wasn't ANY character development, and even though flavia was a good character the plot was not actually all that interesting. i do not know why this got published. also, reading the goodreads reviews and NO ONE is mentioning how fucking racist this book is
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