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The Moor: A captivating mystery for Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
Laurie R. King
3.79 AVERAGE
255 reviews for:
The Moor: A captivating mystery for Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
Laurie R. King
3.79 AVERAGE
Wow, I really enjoyed this book. Read it in about five hours at a straight run with only a short pause for lunch. Mary remains a self-assured and interesting heroine/narrator, her relationship with husband Sherlock continues to amuse and entertain, and the historical figure of Sabine Baring-Gould was a great supporting character, fully fleshed out and three dimensional. King also does a great job making allusions to Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles without relying too heavily on the story.
As always, the conclusion to the case wasn't too obvious, and the finale was satisfyingly exciting. Highly recommended!
As always, the conclusion to the case wasn't too obvious, and the finale was satisfyingly exciting. Highly recommended!
I shouldn't really review this, but I just couldn't get into it...after about 100 pages I just decided I would rather just not pick it up again.
The whole sub genre of Sherlock Holmes-type mysteries is by its very nature highly intellectual, what with all the deductive reasoning, but this entry in the Mary Russell series is especially so. I was quite tickled to realize that big chunks of the mystery here were to be solved through clues gleaned from extensive reading. I love that Mary can be very--perhaps most--helpful to Holmes from her cozy fireside wingback. It is a position to be envied, and aspired to: armchair detective. Of course there is a fair amount of traipsing that occurs in this story, as Russell and Holmes slog up, down and across the moor, a place unique and moody, gloomy and beautiful, inspiring and deadly. The descriptions are rich and gorgeous, and make me want to see it for myself. I hope it exists as Laurie King writes it here, because it sounds like a weird and wonderful landscape.
Mary & her husband Sherlock Holmes revisit the moor where he solved his famous case The Hound of the Baskervilles. Strange things are once again happening on the moor; murders and sightings of black carriages and spectral hounds.
I keep hoping that Mary is made of sterner stuff, but she complains her way through this entire story. PLUS, while it was a minor thing, King specifically writes that as Mary was preparing to join Holmes, she packed "a variety of clothing to cover the spectrum of possibilities that lay between arctic expedition and tiara-topped dinner with royalty" but later in the book, when they are invited to a simple dinner party, she exclaims "Dining! Holmes, I don't have a gown suitable for evening." wtf?
These books are fine, and I will continue to pick them up, but unless you really want some Holmes fan-fic (with a very mild side of sex; frankly Holmes just never seemed the type, to me), I can't say I really recommend them.
I keep hoping that Mary is made of sterner stuff, but she complains her way through this entire story. PLUS, while it was a minor thing, King specifically writes that as Mary was preparing to join Holmes, she packed "a variety of clothing to cover the spectrum of possibilities that lay between arctic expedition and tiara-topped dinner with royalty" but later in the book, when they are invited to a simple dinner party, she exclaims "Dining! Holmes, I don't have a gown suitable for evening." wtf?
These books are fine, and I will continue to pick them up, but unless you really want some Holmes fan-fic (with a very mild side of sex; frankly Holmes just never seemed the type, to me), I can't say I really recommend them.
I love these books! Even when they get slow, they're still good.
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
Other than the first book, this was the best in the series so far -- a return to the moors of the Hound of the Baskervilles. I need to visit Dartmoor someday...
Another good Mary Russell mystery. I didn't like this as well as the others just because it took forever to get into. It was very slow going. However, the moody spooky aspect of the moor and the tying in of the Hounds of the Baskervilles kept me reading.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This is great to read in bed when you're cozy because Mary Russell is SO wet and cold and miserable so much of the time. Like a comfy sweatshirt, but a satisfying mystery.