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A review by anniejulia
Queen of the Flowers by Kerry Greenwood
3.0
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