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Book Review of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, Bk 1)

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, Bk 1)
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Helpful Score: 2


This book seemed to start with a bang, as the main character was tied up in a closet, working on escaping her captors. However, it turned out that it was merely a prank played by her two sisters. From that point on the book moved rather slowly, with lots of asides into random facts and thoughts. By about page 80 the mystery was finally starting to seem interesting. Unfortunately that was the same point that I couldn't stand to read about the main character any longer. She is an spiteful child who looks down on everyone around her and view them as things to mess with to see their reactions instead of actual people, and after several interactions in a row with new characters where she tells them hateful lies while trying to get the information she wants out of them, I decided I'd had enough. To be fair, she could be nice and considerate, but not often enough to outweigh her bad side for me.