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| Title | : | I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia de Luce #4) |
| Author | : | Alan Bradley |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 293 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 2011 by Random House Doubleday |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Audiobook. Holiday. Christmas. Crime |
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Hardcover | Pages: 293 pages Rating: 4.09 | 31053 Users | 3557 Reviews
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It's Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce - an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving - is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces' decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern. Amid a raging blizzard, the entire village of Bishop's Lacey gathers at Buckshaw to watch Wyvern perform, yet nobody is prepared for the evening's shocking conclusion: a body found, past midnight, strangled to death with a length of film. But who among the assembled guests would stage such a chilling scene? As the storm worsens and the list of suspects grows, Flavia must use every ounce of sly wit at her disposal to ferret out a killer hidden in plain sight.
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| Original Title: | I Am Half-Sick of Shadows |
| ISBN: | 0385344015 (ISBN13: 9780385344012) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Flavia de Luce #4 |
| Characters: | Flavia de Luce, Ophelia de Luce, Daphne de Luce, Inspector Hewitt, Colonel de Luce |
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Ratings: 4.09 From 31053 Users | 3557 ReviewsWrite Up Of Books I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia de Luce #4)
IN MY ELEVEN YEARS of life Ive seen a number of corpses. Each of them was interesting in a different way, and this one was no exception.Flavia de Luce always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong right time. She doesnt have to leave her small town of Bishops Lacey to find a steady supply of bodies recently discarded by their souls. Due to precarious pecuniary circumstances Flavias father has recently rented out the ancestral home of Buckshaw to a film crew. Flavia has been busy in her longAbsolutely spiffing! 4.5/5 starsThis review was originally posted on my book blog.I listened to the audiobook version of I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, narrated by Sophie Aldred.I picked up this audiobook from the library because it was the only title in the mp3 range which appealed to me. I didnt have a clue that its number 4 in a series, and Im very happy to report it made very little difference to my enjoyment of the story.I LOVED this. It took a while to get used to Flavias incredibly
Audio performed by Jayne Entwhistle3***In this 4th installment of the Flavia DeLuce series we find Buckshaw overrun with a cinema crew just at Christmas. Its the perfect setting for the film and theyll pay handsomely (keeping the estate afloat for another year). Flavia, however, is much more concerned with whether Father Christmas is real. In an effort to settle the question once and for all, she concocts a chemical trap her own sort of SuperGlue which she spreads around the chimneys.
Mr. Bradley, write faster!
I think this might be my favourite of Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce series yet. She still gets herself into scrapes (and just wait until you see what she is cooking up for Santa Claus in her chemistry lab) but she seems to be growing up and is less an annoying child and more an insightful, but nosy (and still precocious) pre-adolescent. In the week before Christmas, Flavia's impoverished father, Colonel Haviland de Luce has rented out the use of their stately home, Buckshaw House, to a film
I have truly enjoyed this series. (I say enjoyed since this is the fourth and latest book in the series. I hope there are more.)Flavia de Luce is an 11 year old, precocious, independent, and intelligent young girl and an amateur detective. I wouldnt want to have her as a daughter; shed be too much for me to handle. As a character in book, however; she is a delight. She is a bane in the side of the local inspector, since she cant seem to control her impulses and her curiosity enough to not look
Having read all four Flavia de Luce novels in the last couple of weeks, I'm all Flavia'd out for the time being. She certainly is unique -- who else would try to capture Father Christmas by coating the roof and chimneys in birdlime? -- but perhaps is best taken in small doses. I don't think I can take much more of her tampering with crime scenes. (Does this bother anybody else? I could understand her looking around, but she disturbs the body, moves things around, and steals evidence for her own
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