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teadrinking_bibliophile's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
balancinghistorybooks's review
3.0
The best so far in the series, but I am not enamoured enough with it to contemplate reading another; this is occasionally what happens when one buys sets from The Book People…
kpeninger's review
4.0
I enjoyed this one more than the first book in the series, but it still struggles with the same things that many 70s-80s pastiches had problems with: having to dumb Sherlock Holmes down in order to make their own character seem smarter. It also has trouble with just taking SH quotes and putting them in Moriarty's mouth, which... if you're going to do that, why not just write SH?
I still love the premise of this series, and it does have some really interesting secondary characters (love Mummer, love Cecily), so it's definitely worth reading, and I purchased the third book last night since my library didn't have it and I wanted it NOW. I'm hoping to see some changes and adjustments as those books were written much later, and so the author will have had time to change and grow.
I still love the premise of this series, and it does have some really interesting secondary characters (love Mummer, love Cecily), so it's definitely worth reading, and I purchased the third book last night since my library didn't have it and I wanted it NOW. I'm hoping to see some changes and adjustments as those books were written much later, and so the author will have had time to change and grow.
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