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billymac1962 's review for:
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
I always cringe and roll my eyes each time I see this in a review:
I really wanted to like this book.
My response is always, well freaking like it then. It's OKAY.
Right. I'll take a breath...ready.
I really wanted to like this book.
Now I get what this means.
Recently Louise Penny posted to Facebook those authors who she likes to recommend to people. Among them was Alan Bradley. And not just Alan Bradley, but "Alan Bradley - wow".
Well, shit. I'm really disappointed in this because I am hardly wowed, and having come from Louise Penny's recommendation, I was excited and expecting to like it. I didn't.
I find Flavia's precociousness to be way too cutesy and the mystery (where clues are just seeming to fall right into her lap) to be uninteresting.
So I'm out at 25%
I only hope Deborah Crombie and Nicci French (Penny's other recs) aren't met with similar disappointments.
I really wanted to like this book.
My response is always, well freaking like it then. It's OKAY.
Right. I'll take a breath...ready.
I really wanted to like this book.
Now I get what this means.
Recently Louise Penny posted to Facebook those authors who she likes to recommend to people. Among them was Alan Bradley. And not just Alan Bradley, but "Alan Bradley - wow".
Well, shit. I'm really disappointed in this because I am hardly wowed, and having come from Louise Penny's recommendation, I was excited and expecting to like it. I didn't.
I find Flavia's precociousness to be way too cutesy and the mystery (where clues are just seeming to fall right into her lap) to be uninteresting.
So I'm out at 25%
I only hope Deborah Crombie and Nicci French (Penny's other recs) aren't met with similar disappointments.