I really enjoyed the (mis)adventures that the children get up to, what makes some of them funnier is that most of it is accidental, beginning something with one intention only to have to morph into something else, leading them here, there, and everywhere.įlora in Love was a book that had me engrossed from the moment I began reading. To add to this crazy, yet endearing family, there is a new addition on the way, and before the secret is shared you can see the clues in the parents behavior. Bluebell, ever present but always in the background, is continuing with her multimedia diary, but also has her own boy troubles, torn between what she feels and what she thinks she should feel. The more she gets to know him, and the more the Gadsby children know him, the more they have to help. Flora has her eyes set on a new boy in town, over her previous crush, Zach now holds all of Floras interest. No longer so stubborn and defiant, she has found her own niche and sees herself as a poet. Jasmine is becoming quite a little star in her own right. He is learning as much as he can about trains to impress her, and this comes in very handy later on in the book. His attention is now focused on his hair, football, and his crush. No longer 'the Babes' Twig has discovered girls and has a crush. The Gadsby Family is a year older, and Flora in Love lets us see how different they are, and how the children are growing and finding their place, thier own personality. A tender, funny, smart and ultimately heartwarming story.Flora in Love is a book I had sitting waiting to be read for a while and never got around to reading, but with the series being redesigned, I got the chance to review the updated version which matches the rest of the books in the series, and we all know how important a matching series of books is. Blue thinks and feels very deeply about life but can't really talk to anyone about it, because no one in the Gadsby family wants to address the real problem - that Blue's twin sister, Iris, died a year ago, and they are all just trying to hide their grief in busyness.So Blue turns to her diary and her unique way of seeing the world through her camcorder to express herself. The enigmatic Joss moves in next door and Blue thinks she might be falling in love, until he takes out her older sister Flora instead (who, incidentally, is trying to make a statement by dying her hair bright pink but no one takes the blindest bit of notice). Both her parents seem more interested in their careers than the family, leaving Blue and her three siblings as well as their three pet rats (who may or may not be pregnant), in the care of Zoran the au pair. Bluebell Gadsby is 13 but that's the least of her problems. Being a combination of conventional diary entries and transcripts of videos shot by the author on the camera she was given for her 13th birthday, and beginning at the end of summer.

The diaries of bluebell gadsby