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A review by greaydean
A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
4.0
This series is fabulous.
I lose myself in each book. I forget about time and keep reading.
Goofy sibling infighting/informing, delightful detection, romps on "Gladys" (her bicycle), trouble and danger, foolishness, childishness burgeoning on adulthood, classical references galore (some I know, some I don't, only if I hadn't given up on that English minor).
Absolutely pure delight that keeps me reaching to flip the next page between chuckles.
I can't give it 5 stars only because I don't believe that this is a classic, but maybe I should redefine what a classic is. As it has references to great works of literature from all centuries, it works through family relationships and mourns pain and loss, class wars, maybe it has all the ingredients. Is the star of great fiction only 11 years old and functioning in a mystery?
I lose myself in each book. I forget about time and keep reading.
Goofy sibling infighting/informing, delightful detection, romps on "Gladys" (her bicycle), trouble and danger, foolishness, childishness burgeoning on adulthood, classical references galore (some I know, some I don't, only if I hadn't given up on that English minor).
Absolutely pure delight that keeps me reaching to flip the next page between chuckles.
I can't give it 5 stars only because I don't believe that this is a classic, but maybe I should redefine what a classic is. As it has references to great works of literature from all centuries, it works through family relationships and mourns pain and loss, class wars, maybe it has all the ingredients. Is the star of great fiction only 11 years old and functioning in a mystery?