As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust: The gripping seventh novel in the cosy Flavia De Luce series (Flavia de Luce Mystery)

As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust: The gripping seventh novel in the cosy Flavia De Luce series (Flavia de Luce Mystery)

Taschenbuch
3.33

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Beschreibung

The seventh novel in Alan Bradley's addictive Flavia de Luce mystery series. It all began with that awful business about my mother, Harriet...Following the dramatic events at the conclusion of THE DEAD IN THEIR VAULTED ARCHES and the shocking revelations about her mother, Flavia de Luce finds herself expelled from the familiar confines of Bishop's Lacey and her beloved family home, Buckshaw, and 'packed off', as she puts it, to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada. With its forbidding headmistress and bizarre rules, adapting to Miss Bodycote's is quite a challenge. But Flavia is soon on familiar ground, when, on her first night, a mummified body is dislodged from a chimney, and she is presented with a gruesome puzzle to solve. And the mystery of the withered corpse is only the beginning. Girls have been disappearing from Miss Bodycote's with alarming regularity, leading Flavia to wonder not only how and why, but what exactly is the academy's true purpose, and why were they so keen that she enrol? If Flavia is to avoid the same fate as the missing girls, she must enter a shadowy world where truth and lies seem interchangeable and no one can be trusted. And ultimately she must discover what it means to be her mother's daughter.
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416
Preis
12.45 €

Beiträge

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3

Flavia is starting her first year at Miss Bodycote's Academy. She's homesick a lot - and so was I. I liked how the school and its inhabitants were described. But it was not Buckshaw. Dogger, Flavia's father and sisters, Mr and Mrs Mullet still are present in Flavia's thoughts but it's just not the same. I also found the crime rather confusing. There are so many new characters that I sometimes lost track of who was who. In the end it all comes to a logic conclusion but the twists and turns before that were a bit too much for me. The biggest surprise for me was that Flavia is being sent back to Buckshaw in the end. I like this but I'm now wondering what the sense of this volume was. Alan Bradley could as well have left Flavia at home if he is sending her back again. 3.5 stars for As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust. This is the lowest rating I have given to this series so far. I hope that I will enjoy the next volume a lot more. (I received a free digital copy via Netgalley/the publisher. Thanks for the opportunity!)

5

I'm hooked to Flavia since the first book. Can't wait for the next one.....

2

Leider hat mir der Ausflug Flavias nach Kanada nicht so gut gefallen, wie ich gehofft hatte. Der Witz, der die Geschichte sonst so beiläufig untermalt, erschien mir dieses Mal zu gewollt, zu gekünstelt ... irgendwie drüber. Land und Leute Kanadas werden höchstens kurz beschrieben, der Autor bleibt weit hinter seinen Möglichkeiten, eine alternative Welt zu Buckshaw zu erschaffen, zurück. Zudem war die Leiche in 2 Seiten entdeckt und auf 2 Seiten erklärt. Ich hatte das Gefühl, dass ein Großteil der Handlung im Mittelteil keinem so richtigen Zweck diente und man nicht so recht miträtseln konnte, wie ich es von anderen Bänden der Flavia-Reihe gewohnt bin. Dennoch bleibe ich ein Fan der Reihe. Auch zwischendurch hat mir der eine oder andere Band nicht so gut gefallen und dann kam doch wieder eine richtig gutes Flavia-Abenteuer.

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