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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
funny
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
J'étais à fond !
On retrouve les personnages du 1er tome quelques semaines après les évènements. Et il se passe des trucs louches à la maison de retraite.
Encore une fois, j'ai adoré les personnages, même les secondaires. Ils sont tous très chouette avec de vraies personnalités et finalement, l'enquête passerait presque au second plan.
Mais dans ce cas, je me suis sentie très impliquée. Les personnages de la maison de retraite sont si attachants que je voulais pas qu'il leur arrive un truc et j'étais stressée dès qu'on avait le point de vue criminel.
C'est une bonne petite série qui vaut surtout par ses bons personnages plutôt que par ses énigmes. Plaisant à lire.
On retrouve les personnages du 1er tome quelques semaines après les évènements. Et il se passe des trucs louches à la maison de retraite.
Encore une fois, j'ai adoré les personnages, même les secondaires. Ils sont tous très chouette avec de vraies personnalités et finalement, l'enquête passerait presque au second plan.
Mais dans ce cas, je me suis sentie très impliquée. Les personnages de la maison de retraite sont si attachants que je voulais pas qu'il leur arrive un truc et j'étais stressée dès qu'on avait le point de vue criminel.
C'est une bonne petite série qui vaut surtout par ses bons personnages plutôt que par ses énigmes. Plaisant à lire.
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Visit the locations in the novel Welcome to Bruncliffe, Yorkshire
Despite the calamities and strange old people who live in Bruncliffe, oh and despite the fact it’s a fictional setting, I really want to live there! Delilah and Samson are the funniest twosome I’ve come across in fiction for a long while. All wrapped up with witty Yorkshire asides and a pot of Yorkshire tea brewing over the page…
Samson has a sense of humour to rival the next man – He wants to move on , away from Bruncliffe, back to London, where there sill be “No more old ladies making wild accusations and no more smelly farmers”
A series of crimes involving an old age people’s home might not sound exciting, but in the hands of Julia Chapman it is! Funny, dark and quite poignant in places, no character is your cliched typical old person but they have some very interesting characters there! Samson knows the place well as he has connections there himself…a nice interesting thread to the story.
There’s a strong sense of Yorkshire’s charms all the way through the story- humour, landscape, farming history and more but it’s the characters who shine – each delicately crafted and ruffed up before appearing on the pages. I could see them all clearly, scowls and all, and it’s a cracking mystery in this one – go Samson!
With the Christmas overtones, it’s a nice one to read when the nights get even chillier and if it snows like in the book – so much the better!
3.5 ⭐ =Quite Good.
#2 in the Dales Detective series, and I enjoyed this one slightly more than the first.
This didn't take quite so long to get into the plot. Perhaps that was because we were already familiar with many of the characters.
A gentle read - well as gentle as it can be when murders are involved!
#2 in the Dales Detective series, and I enjoyed this one slightly more than the first.
This didn't take quite so long to get into the plot. Perhaps that was because we were already familiar with many of the characters.
A gentle read - well as gentle as it can be when murders are involved!
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Entertaining.