The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce #2)
By Alan Bradley
Flavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacy are over—and then Rupert Porson has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. The beloved puppeteer has had his own strings sizzled, but who’d do such a thing and why? For Flavia, the questions are intriguing enough to make her put aside her chemistry experiments and schemes of vengeance against her insufferable big sisters. Astride Gladys, her trusty bicycle, Flavia sets out from the de Luces’ crumbling family mansion in search of Bishop’s Lacey’s deadliest secrets.
1 comment:
Just as a note, I have now re-evaluated the manner in which I conduct conversations with my OWN 10 year old... Flavia is just... too intelligent for her own good!
I am disappointed in the fact that she seems to keep breaking rules and some laws (*cough* breaking and entering *cough*) and doesn't seem to pay the consequences for those actions.
Then there is Flavia's family... or lack thereof! What atrocious relations she has with her sisters! How sad that her father is so distant. How courageous of Flavia to do so much good for others despite!
I enjoyed the adventure, and what an adventurous lot her neighbors are turning out to be!
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