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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This installment of the Phryne Fisher series finds the circus in town, plus the first Flower Festival in St. Kilda’s. Who better than Phryne to be Queen of the Flowers? She has flower maidens to ride on the float with her, and when one of them disappears, she is asked to investigate the girl’s disappearance.
Closer to home, one of her adopted daughters also disappears. Ruth had requested a visit to her mother, so Phryne suspects Ruth has gone off to find her father.
While the Flower Festival and circus are entertaining and lovely, the dark underbelly of the circus and St. Kilda’s plays a prominent part in this book.
As always, Phryne is impeccably dressed, dines well, and uses her resources, including a former flame from bygone days, to help discover what has happened to the two girls.
This is another good entry in this series. As always, I thoroughly enjoy Greenwood’s writing and her stories continue to delight!
Closer to home, one of her adopted daughters also disappears. Ruth had requested a visit to her mother, so Phryne suspects Ruth has gone off to find her father.
While the Flower Festival and circus are entertaining and lovely, the dark underbelly of the circus and St. Kilda’s plays a prominent part in this book.
As always, Phryne is impeccably dressed, dines well, and uses her resources, including a former flame from bygone days, to help discover what has happened to the two girls.
This is another good entry in this series. As always, I thoroughly enjoy Greenwood’s writing and her stories continue to delight!
one thing i love about these books is how absolutely batshit they are.
sometimes in these books phryne refers to the books ruth (one of the two girls she adopted from an evil hypnotist who was forcing them to steal things) (yes that is a plot line) reads as "train novels" since they have no substance and serve the purpose of reading on a train to pass the time. that is exactly how i feel about the phryne fisher books and yet i absolutely cannot stop reading them.
and again, THEY ARE BATSHIT!! just when i thought they couldn't top phryne receiving lin chung's ear in the mail or being possessed by the goddess isis to help her solve a murder she goes and rides on the back of an elephant wearing a dress made of flowers.
don't even get me started on how down bad dot and phryne are for each other!!! in "urn burial" there was FULLY a line where dot said "you drive me crazy but you smell so good" is that not the gayest thing you have ever read??? and this is not at all me hating on hugh (dot's himbo bf) because he is a simp and i love him, i just feel bad that dot is dragging him along while she awoogas over phryne. like.........they raise two children together.
from an actual review standpoint, these books all read sort of like a wattpad (specifically) fanfic. speaking as someone who has written wattpad fanfic, i can pick it out pretty quick. kerry greenwood writes sometimes like she has to hit a word count to get this chapter out to her wattpad followers and sometimes like she's having a genius moment and writing beautiful prose completely naturally. for real though, i am HOOKED.
my critiques are as follows:
-just let dot and phryne hook up
-give hugh a nice gf who isn't distracted all the time by her hot boss
-let it be 1929???? it has been 1928 for 14 books now and i find that a little bit hard to believe
-let dot and phryne smooch
sometimes in these books phryne refers to the books ruth (one of the two girls she adopted from an evil hypnotist who was forcing them to steal things) (yes that is a plot line) reads as "train novels" since they have no substance and serve the purpose of reading on a train to pass the time. that is exactly how i feel about the phryne fisher books and yet i absolutely cannot stop reading them.
and again, THEY ARE BATSHIT!! just when i thought they couldn't top phryne receiving lin chung's ear in the mail or being possessed by the goddess isis to help her solve a murder she goes and rides on the back of an elephant wearing a dress made of flowers.
don't even get me started on how down bad dot and phryne are for each other!!! in "urn burial" there was FULLY a line where dot said "you drive me crazy but you smell so good" is that not the gayest thing you have ever read??? and this is not at all me hating on hugh (dot's himbo bf) because he is a simp and i love him, i just feel bad that dot is dragging him along while she awoogas over phryne. like.........they raise two children together.
from an actual review standpoint, these books all read sort of like a wattpad (specifically) fanfic. speaking as someone who has written wattpad fanfic, i can pick it out pretty quick. kerry greenwood writes sometimes like she has to hit a word count to get this chapter out to her wattpad followers and sometimes like she's having a genius moment and writing beautiful prose completely naturally. for real though, i am HOOKED.
my critiques are as follows:
-just let dot and phryne hook up
-give hugh a nice gf who isn't distracted all the time by her hot boss
-let it be 1929???? it has been 1928 for 14 books now and i find that a little bit hard to believe
-let dot and phryne smooch
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
★★☆☆☆ | 2 Stars
This was the fist Fisher Mysteries book I've read (but I have seen the TV show) and I must say I was quite disappointed. There was very little by way of plot and Phryne didn't really do much detective work. Most of the book was just her either drinking or taking a bath :/
I feel like the plot could have been resolved in half the time it actually took - the real mystery isn't even introduced until about 1/3 of the way through.
Greenwood also has this annoying habit of switiching narration perspectives multiple times within chapters, which I'm not a fan of.
This was the fist Fisher Mysteries book I've read (but I have seen the TV show) and I must say I was quite disappointed. There was very little by way of plot and Phryne didn't really do much detective work. Most of the book was just her either drinking or taking a bath :/
I feel like the plot could have been resolved in half the time it actually took - the real mystery isn't even introduced until about 1/3 of the way through.
Greenwood also has this annoying habit of switiching narration perspectives multiple times within chapters, which I'm not a fan of.
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
This being the first book I read in 2021, was just “meh”. I love the tv series and the books is not as good . Phryne doesn’t do much sleuthing, she wait for things to settle type of work . Post this book, I deleted all the fisher novels from my kindle. Sparked joy !