Flying Too High: Library Edition

from ashleytylerjohn

Not as much fun as the first one (sounds like an odd thing to say, considering the first one focused on drug trafficking and abortion), probably because I have a tendency to tune out when characters discuss cars or airplanes. They can go on at quite good length about knitting patterns or the lati...

from richardderus

Any series needs its "jokes" or established tics and tropes that let dedicated series readers build a sense of friendly familiarity with a character, a place, a group gestalt. This series promises to do that with a vengeance. Phryne's tics and crotchets are consistent...wit, sexual freedom, socia...

from sjmccreary

This is the second book in the Phryne Fisher series, set in Australia in the 1920's. I wasn't wild about the first book - mostly because I just didn't care one way or the other about the main character. This book was a little better, but I think that is because there was less focus on Phryne and ...

from sjmccreary

This is the second book in the Phryne Fisher series, set in Australia in the 1920's. I wasn't wild about the first book - mostly because I just didn't care one way or the other about the main character. This book was a little better, but I think that is because there was less focus on Phryne and ...

from aoibhealfae

Unlike the first book, which I did find a bit dragging and filled with fillers, the second book is a much nicer read. I don't mind descriptive readings, its rather enjoyable to see the early 20st century world from the eyes of a flapper lady detective - lol.The book wasn't made into the live acti...