{"id":147,"date":"2010-04-16T15:54:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T22:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2010-11-11T15:48:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T23:48:24","slug":"the-sweetness-at-the-bottom-of-the-pie-a-flavia-de-luce-mystery-by-alan-bradley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery  by Alan Bradley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"workCoverImage alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0385343493.01._SX140_SY225_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley\" width=\"112\" height=\"173\" \/>The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie won the First Dagger award, which prompted my reading.  It is a light mystery story involving an 11-year-old girl who&#8217;s father is accused of a murder.  She solves the murder mostly through legwork and clever deduction.  The story is told in the first person, and does a good job of portraying the thoughts, energy, and goals of a child, at least from the perspective of an adult.<\/p>\n<p>The protagonist, Flavia De Luce, is a precocious child and chemistry wiz.  She is the daughter of a lower nobleman living in England.  She makes the occasional error, which seem very appropriate for this character.<\/p>\n<p>The supporting characters were mostly flat, but also mostly unimportant to the story.  Only the inspector and antagonist really played an important role.<\/p>\n<p>I felt the writing did a good job of describing people and the puzzle.  The writing flowed well, although the book was a tad on the light side.  There was too much information provided early on, making it a little easy to figure out.  But the solution was good and made sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie won the First Dagger award, which prompted my reading. It is a light mystery story involving an 11-year-old girl who&#8217;s father is accused of a murder. She solves the murder mostly through legwork and clever deduction. The story is told in the first person, and does a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}