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Fly Trap (2011)

by Frances Hardinge(Favorite Author)

4.31 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0060880449 (ISBN13: 9780060880446)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

HarperCollins

series

Fly By Night

review 1: I have just finished Fly Trap (Twilight Robbery in the UK) and it was every bit as good as Fly By Night. Very impressive. Despite a seemingly light tone, peppered with hilarious scenes and wonderful names, the story has bite. The idea that people are destined to be good or bad depending on the hour of their birth is obviously absurd, but played neatly so that it makes sense. And is a perfectly good allegory for the silly categorisations that we are fond of using to include or exclude people. It works here because it wasn't a topic for preaching, it was just there and you (and the characters) made of it what you wanted. The adversaries were smart too, not just cardboard cut out villains. Their actions made sense and they responded sensibly to changes in their circumstances ... moreaccording to their motivations and needs. In that sense the story seemed larger than Mosca, Eponymous and Saracen. Which is as it should be.
review 2: This is a follow-up book in Frances Hardinge's series involving a ferrety-featured girl named Mosca Mye. While reading the first book I was instantly thrown into Mosca Myes world of adventure and running into wrong people at the wrong time. At the ending, I desperately begged for more, so when I saw that there was a second book, I leaped for joy! The second book proved to be jsut as exciting and thrilling as the first one, I'm eagerly awaiting the third installment that the ending of the secnod implies. If you have a taste for adventure, geese, and a plot that ties up everything, then this series is for you! less

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