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A review by stacielynn
What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust by Alan Bradley
3.0
Wow. For the first time ever, I was able to put down a Flavia de Luce mystery. What was hard was picking it back up.
I know Bradley has struggled recently but this is a very disappointing installment and the mixed quality of recent titles did not prepare me for what this book contained.
Gone are beloved characters. The often incomprehensible but nurturing relationships and provocative inner thought processes that made Flavia so special are totally missing.
Now that she is growing up, he clearly has no clue what to do with our heroine.
Undine is whiny. And I fear that her role will be to make Flavia embrace traditional feminine traits.
The plot is getting a tad fantastical. What next? Will he introduce a weather machine that will be stolen by an evil character who wants to rule the world?
I know Bradley has struggled recently but this is a very disappointing installment and the mixed quality of recent titles did not prepare me for what this book contained.
Gone are beloved characters. The often incomprehensible but nurturing relationships and provocative inner thought processes that made Flavia so special are totally missing.
Now that she is growing up, he clearly has no clue what to do with our heroine.
Undine is whiny. And I fear that her role will be to make Flavia embrace traditional feminine traits.
The plot is getting a tad fantastical. What next? Will he introduce a weather machine that will be stolen by an evil character who wants to rule the world?