
Flora Segunda
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Narrated by:
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Danielle Ferland
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By:
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Ysabeau S. Wilce
In Ysabeau S. Wilce's exciting debut novel, Flora's mom is away, leaving Flora and her father home alone at Crackpot Hall with its 11,000 constantly shifting rooms. Late for school one day, Flora decides to take the elevator down to the first floor. But without her mother around, the elevator has ideas of its own and drops Flora in an unfamiliar room. Lost in her own house, Flora embarks on a harrowing quest to find her way back to where she started.
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Critic reviews
"A thoroughly original magical world marks this witty debut." (Kirkus Reviews)
Hoping to see the sequel on Audible soon.
Enjoyable story
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Delightful and dark around the edges
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I really really wish the second installment, Flora's Dare, had been put out on audio!
Banished Blue Butlers and Other Oddities
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Surprising and fun
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My only complaint is that there seems to be a production issue where a chapter will end and then without a seconds pause it will begin the next chapter. It's a bit jarring and annoying but other than that I enjoyed this book a lot.
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I liked the idea of the story, but it was rather slow and the world building was lacking for a fantasy story. My big problem, though, was the reader. Her narrative voice was tooI wanted to like it...
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Despite its delightful whimsy, it deals with some very harsh issues.
Flora Secunda is the daughter of a great general (her mother )who is a workaholic and absent most of the time, and a war hero (her father) so debilitated by his prisoner of war internment he has retreated into drinking and madness. The last of a crumbling, great lineage and certainly not the best, 14 year old Flora has been left trying to maintain the family and take on the responsibilities of the adults who aren't there for her.
Obviously, she gets into trouble. And what wonderful trouble it is. Flora has ideas of her own about what she wants for her life. She doesn't want to be a solider like all the family before her, she wants magic and adventure like her ranger heroine Minimo.
Flora, her best friend (fashionably dressed partner in crime) Udo, and her red dog manage to find all the magic and adventure they can handle.
Absolutely recommended for any age.
Whimsy with soul
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I really wish the narrator could pronounce Spanish, considering how much there is in this book. It hurt every time she mispronounced "tamale" and made what I assume to be "Papi" sound like "Poppy." The whole Spanish language and partial culture thing made the story way more interesting to me, though being from the Americas, the combination of this and all the blonde-haired blue-eyed characters was jarring. It was also really good as far as "girl power" is concerned, since not only is there a female main character, there seems to be not even a vestige of sexism in the entire story. Even words like "dainty" and wanting to be well-dressed and clean does not have the sexed stigma it has in our society. That was quite refreshing.
Really Weird
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