Title: Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
Author: R.L. LaFevers
Category: Fiction, Children’s
Rating: 4/5
Summary: 11-year-old Theodosia Throckmorton spends most of her time in an antiquities museum run by her father, while her mother goes on long archaeological expeditions to obtain artifacts for the museum. But Theo can see something on these artifacts that nobody else seems to—they’re infected with ancient Egyptian curses, and they’ll hurt her family if she doesn’t take matters into her own hands.

Review: I loved this book!

My first clue I was going to love it was the dedication: “To clever girls everywhere who get tired of feeling like no one’s listening.”

Theo is nothing if not a clever little girl. But she’s also deliciously sassy, which kept me chuckling throughout the book.

The book is set in London in the early twentieth century, and I’m a sucker for British language in a children’s book (thank you, J.K. Rowling)—lots of “bother” and “boiled cabbage” and “don’t give a fig.”

I gobbled this book up as fast as I could, and now I have to wait until the library gets copies of the next book in the series, Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris. It just so happens to release today, but the store-release-to-library-shelving interval will keep me waiting for at least a couple weeks. Bother.