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A review by timinbc
Fly Trap by Frances Hardinge
4.0
The first volume was good, this is better. As others noted, there's no need to file this as a children's book.
Bugs me slightly that Clent is just W.C. Fields from his many swindler movies, but I *like* Fields so it's OK.
The goose is delightful, but Hardinge is too often forced to account for it and it becomes unwieldy.
Predict the plot? Good luck. If anything, the unpredictability is a tad overdone.
Well, sure, the overall fate of Toll is predictable, but how we get there isn't.
Also liked the way Mosca grows through the story, and starts to think instead of just charging in.
I hope we see Laylow again.
Finally, is Goshawk bad, or is he more like Pratchett's Lord Vetinari, doing what needs doing and thinking six moves ahead?
I'll read the next book to find out.
Bugs me slightly that Clent is just W.C. Fields from his many swindler movies, but I *like* Fields so it's OK.
The goose is delightful, but Hardinge is too often forced to account for it and it becomes unwieldy.
Predict the plot? Good luck. If anything, the unpredictability is a tad overdone.
Well, sure, the overall fate of Toll is predictable, but how we get there isn't.
Also liked the way Mosca grows through the story, and starts to think instead of just charging in.
I hope we see Laylow again.
Finally, is Goshawk bad, or is he more like Pratchett's Lord Vetinari, doing what needs doing and thinking six moves ahead?
I'll read the next book to find out.