Three short reviews

[read_warbler]

I'm way behind with reviews so this is another of my catch-up posts with three brief reviews of books I've recently read.

First up, The Dead in their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley.

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[byslantedlight]

That reminds me - I must reserve The Man in the Queue at the library if they have it. (*and done) - thank you!) And the first Flavia de Luce book too - I didn't realise/remember she was 11 years old (well, in the first book) but they still sound good.

The Aldiss book looks familiar, but I suspect just from its cover, I don't think I've read it. I must admit that the idea of a big political/court plot puts me off a bit too - I always tended to skim over that part of stories, and I don't seem to have changed... *g*

[caffyolay]

I hope you like it. The two I've read so far have been rather good and folk on my other blog and guinnevere_b in her comment below, have told me that a couple of others in the series are absolutely brilliant: Daughter of Time and The Singing Sands. The former being a Richard III yarn apparently.

I'm not mad about political intrigue either *yawn* but there was plenty in the book to keep me interested. It's not a *bad* sci-fi series but I'm still looking for the perfect one if you get me. *g*

[byslantedlight]

Daughter of Time is the one book from that series that I have read, and to be honest I didn't hate it, but I wasn't mad about it either. I didn't realise it was part of a series though, and I suspect I would have liked it more if I'd read the others first, because it relies alot on friends of the main character in some way. I suspect it'll work much better for you!

[guinnevere_b]

Haven't read any Flavia deLuce books, although they sound intriguing, and the Helliconia books are not a series I've encountered, but the scientific aspect does sound interesting.

The only book by Josephine Tey that I've read is The Daughter of Time, which is also an Inspector Grant novel, but I've read it several times already because it's so good! About time I read some of her other novels; she was a brilliant writer.

[caffyolay]

The Flavia books are huge fun and really cheer you up. The author lives in Canada but must be a Brit I think as he clearly knows us very well. *G*

Loads of people have told me that Daughter of Time is excellent so am looking forward to getting to that one.