Reading: A Spoonful of Murder
Oct. 20th, 2018 12:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
white_hartThe publication of Robin Stevens' latest Wells and Wong mystery last week reminded me that the previous one, A Spoonful of Murder, had been sitting on my kindle since it was published in February, and given that I was in the mood for a fun, fairly light read anyway I thought I ought to try to catch up.
A Spoonful of Murder begins with Hazel being summoned home to Hong Kong following her grandfather's death. Dasiy comes with her, but when the girls arrive they find that her grandfather's death isn't the only change there has been in Hazel's family, and soon they find themselves investigating a crime which touches Hazel as closely as the case in Arsenic for Tea touched Daisy. I really loved how much this book shows the ways the two girls have grown and changed during the course of the series; Hazel in particular really comes into her own here, in a setting where she is at home and Daisy is the foreigner and forced by language considerations and other people's assumptions to let Hazel take the lead a lot of the time. It also continues the series' deftly subtle examination of race and gender issues (and class also comes into play in this one). I enjoyed it very much and am looking forward to reading the new one soon (hopefully before the next one comes out this time, though there's something to be said for always having one book of a series I'm enjoying in reserve rather than being all caught up and having to wait until a future release date for more...)
A Spoonful of Murder begins with Hazel being summoned home to Hong Kong following her grandfather's death. Dasiy comes with her, but when the girls arrive they find that her grandfather's death isn't the only change there has been in Hazel's family, and soon they find themselves investigating a crime which touches Hazel as closely as the case in Arsenic for Tea touched Daisy. I really loved how much this book shows the ways the two girls have grown and changed during the course of the series; Hazel in particular really comes into her own here, in a setting where she is at home and Daisy is the foreigner and forced by language considerations and other people's assumptions to let Hazel take the lead a lot of the time. It also continues the series' deftly subtle examination of race and gender issues (and class also comes into play in this one). I enjoyed it very much and am looking forward to reading the new one soon (hopefully before the next one comes out this time, though there's something to be said for always having one book of a series I'm enjoying in reserve rather than being all caught up and having to wait until a future release date for more...)
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Date: 2018-10-23 02:05 pm (UTC)