As I mentioned, Shadows combines many elements practically guaranteed to make me devour a book. If, like me, you’re an avid Flavia fan, great news - Shadows is the best one yet! Red Herring, for example, is about gypsies, and just came out in paperback. Beaton, stop reading my blog right now and go treat yourself to any of Flavia’s delightful adventures. If you’ve never read a Flavia book, and you’re a fan of Nancy Drew, Agatha Christie and M.C. Finally, to dear, dear Lindsey from Random House, I owe you a big, squishy hug. To my neighbours, I apologize for having busted your eardrums when I opened the package from Random House. So, dear Santa, to whom I promised 20 years of being a good girl, I now hereby promise to make that vow last at least till Christmas. It has a coffee mug stain on the cover, which is likely from an absent-minded editor, but which I prefer to imagine as the mark of a fellow Flavia fan who, however reluctantly, handed over her copy to make this blogger’s day.
Turns out they did have a single ARC left. So it’s no wonder I’ve not only had Shadows on my wish list since having finished A Red Herring without Mustard, but I also begged (please, please, please, if at all possible!) Random House Canada for an ARC. In I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Alan Bradley even adds a dash of Romeo and Juliet, and as anyone who’s ever seen my dog-eared, heavily annotated The Norton Shakespeare can attest, I am a sucker for anything Shakespeare. Christmas, Flavia de Luce and movies are three of my favourite things.
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