4.15 AVERAGE

adventurous funny mysterious reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I was influenced to read this, and I’m so glad I did. I had an idea of who Holmes and Watson were as characters in a relatively public domain, but this was the first time I’ve actually read the origins. The writing was great, ACD comes up with actually crazy metaphors/similes/word plays. The first couple stories I was just kinda reading along, letting Sherlock tell me what went down, but by the end I was theorizing alongside him and trying to read between the lines myself. And it is so funny to me when the client comes in and tells their story then stands up to leave like, okay I’ll leave you to it and Sherlock’s like nah, I already solved it in the 10 minutes it took you to tell me. Totally get the hype, very much enjoyed it. 
adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot

I've bought this once for a couple of euros, and as I was in the mood for some light reading after my last book, I picked this up. It was very nice. The stories are short, with a good pace and cheerful tone. Amusing and easy.

By the way, I did notice that Doyle mentioned "a woman's instinct" a couple of times. Mentioning this in the narrative is comic enough, but when a woman herself uses this phrase to explain a sense of foreboding, that is just hilarious. Oh, 19th century, how different you are.

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adventurous informative mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
medium-paced
adventurous funny mysterious

Didn't realize this had music to go along with it which defeated the purpose of using it as my fall asleep audiobook, but that's on me.
adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes