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A review by attytheresa
The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis
4.0
Excellent start to a spinoff series set in Ancient Rome. I had forgotten just how much I enjoyed the contemporary sensibility, humorous eye and wry tone provided by Lindsey Davis in her mystery series featuring Marcus Didius Falco. Davis has marvelously cast the same net around Falco's daughter, Flavia Albia, who is also a private informer inhabiting a garret in Fountain Court.
My one quibble is that I tumbled to the various surprises and twists very early on, much earlier than the heroine who is too smart to have been bamboozled for more than a short time. But then the self-deprecating humor and deliberate witticisms of the narrator (Flavia Albia herself) serve as their own red herrings to just how much she knows when. I will definitely read more of Davis' books.
Read as my book with a month in the title for the 2017 Pop Sugar Reading Challenge.
My one quibble is that I tumbled to the various surprises and twists very early on, much earlier than the heroine who is too smart to have been bamboozled for more than a short time. But then the self-deprecating humor and deliberate witticisms of the narrator (Flavia Albia herself) serve as their own red herrings to just how much she knows when. I will definitely read more of Davis' books.
Read as my book with a month in the title for the 2017 Pop Sugar Reading Challenge.