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annettebooksofhopeanddreams's review against another edition
4.0
I was kinda scared to pick this book up and I wasn't even sure what option scared me the most: The one where this book would all of a sudden get a happy end, with Sherlock and Mori being in love and with Mori not becoming Sherlock's enemy in the future. Or the one where this book would end with Sherlock and Mori opposing each other, Mori because she finally let all her anger out and Sherlock because he still believes you have either good or bad in this world.
However, since I didn't want to take this book with me to my parents, I had to read it today. And the further I read, the more I knew which option it was gonna be. I think it was the best option, the most fitting one, the one that those three books clearly aimed for. That doesn't mean that it hurts any less. The entire series is written from Mori's perspective and despite her choices, it's really hard not to feel for her. Because deep down, just like Sherlock, we keep on believing that there is a good girl inside Mori, a girl who just wants to be happy with a guy who loves her.
Mori's character growth, if you can somehow still call it that, is amazingly well done however. We see her struggling with the anger rushing through her veins, we see her wanting to be like her mother, but knowing that she also has her father's genes. We see how in a way she does love Sherlock, and she does want to be with him, but being who she is is so much stronger than anything else and she loves him that much that she refuses to take him with her when she falls.
In a way it's also very heartbreaking. We know that this will turn Sherlock into the emotionless detective we get to know later in life. This is why he's always objective, detached and with his emotions switched off. He once trusted someone. He once loved someone. He once dared to feel something for a very special girl. And she betrayed him in every way possible. In the worst way possible.
I have no doubt that this Mori and this Sherlock will meet again. And I have no doubt we all know exactly how it will go and how it will end.
However, since I didn't want to take this book with me to my parents, I had to read it today. And the further I read, the more I knew which option it was gonna be. I think it was the best option, the most fitting one, the one that those three books clearly aimed for. That doesn't mean that it hurts any less. The entire series is written from Mori's perspective and despite her choices, it's really hard not to feel for her. Because deep down, just like Sherlock, we keep on believing that there is a good girl inside Mori, a girl who just wants to be happy with a guy who loves her.
Mori's character growth, if you can somehow still call it that, is amazingly well done however. We see her struggling with the anger rushing through her veins, we see her wanting to be like her mother, but knowing that she also has her father's genes. We see how in a way she does love Sherlock, and she does want to be with him, but being who she is is so much stronger than anything else and she loves him that much that she refuses to take him with her when she falls.
In a way it's also very heartbreaking. We know that this will turn Sherlock into the emotionless detective we get to know later in life. This is why he's always objective, detached and with his emotions switched off. He once trusted someone. He once loved someone. He once dared to feel something for a very special girl. And she betrayed him in every way possible. In the worst way possible.
I have no doubt that this Mori and this Sherlock will meet again. And I have no doubt we all know exactly how it will go and how it will end.
destiny_rose1221's review against another edition
3.0
This book absolutely wrecked me. It didn't make me cry the most - The Book Thief still holds the record for that - but no book has ever left me feeling this broken. Adequate closure for this does not exist.
snowbenton's review
2.0
Like a bad Saturday night scifi channel movie, I got into this in spite of myself. It's poorly written, poorly plotted, and totally outrageous. But the conclusion was fun, and I like that it was like a prequel to the story of Sherlock and Moriarty's rivalry.
weecha22's review against another edition
3.0
It took me years (really!) to finish this because at some point I was so uninterested, I moved on. I should have known this series would never end happily but I guess I’m a romantic. I found a lot of the strings in this one were messily tied. It didn’t feel like a final book in a series. Also, given the title, I really expected an ending more true to the original text.
msisintheunknown's review against another edition
3.0
Please tell me there will be a new trilogy, that will serve as a sequel. Please!
ssejig's review against another edition
3.0
I requested this book from NetGalley thinking that I had read the first book in the series. I had not but I didn't feel like I needed to read either of the first two books in this series to understand the story. There was some back story on why the book opens with Mori in a cell, trapped by her aunt and separated from her brothers.
This book focuses mainly on Mori and her search for revenge. We don't get a lot of "Lock" in this book and their meetings are... I guess the "bittersweet" from the back cover blurb sort of covers it.
Not my favorite update of the Sherlock story but not horrible.
This book focuses mainly on Mori and her search for revenge. We don't get a lot of "Lock" in this book and their meetings are... I guess the "bittersweet" from the back cover blurb sort of covers it.
Not my favorite update of the Sherlock story but not horrible.
lpcoolgirl's review
5.0
This book was so great-and so sad! I wish that it was longer, but so much happened, and it was pretty heart-wrenching! I kinda hope we get another book with these characters, but grown up! After all, with the way things have set up, we haven't yet seen them as they are in the originals. I'd love Heather W. Petty's continued spin!
kenzigrl's review against another edition
4.0
Initially I was really disappointed to see how short this book was but in the end it was just enough to wrap up the storyline.