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3.32 AVERAGE
3.32 AVERAGE
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
An enjoyable mystery, but nothing remarkable, in my opinion.
lighthearted
mysterious
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Moderate: Misogyny, Xenophobia
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I enjoyed the author's sense of humour and descriptions of oxford university at the time from first hand experience.
However, the story wasnt very gripping and the outcome disappointing.
There were also racist attitudes towards one of the characters which are now outdated
However, the story wasnt very gripping and the outcome disappointing.
There were also racist attitudes towards one of the characters which are now outdated
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Strong character development:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
*3.5 Stars*
BLCC buddy read with @bookishsteph1 - September 2016
BLCC buddy read with @bookishsteph1 - September 2016
emotional
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Moderate: Xenophobia
This is a product of its time. The young ladies and their crumpets. The excitable foreigner who can't be trusted. The bluestocking who hides a secret. Enjoyable for what it is.
I found this a very enjoyable read, but not primarily for the whodunit. The plot of the whodunit relies on intricate time schemes of the kind spoofed by Dorothy L. Sayers and others, and is somewhat dated in its denouement. However! The book itself, I thought, was a pleasure. Oxford is recognizably, sempiternally itself, while the social mores and slang of its undergrads are unmistakably of the world between the wars, and both of these things I find charming, rather than insufferable. The author is never arch, and her prose is good. The digs made by the female students at a rather dusty medievalist who comes in to tutor them are -- I'm a medievalist, I can say it -- dateless.