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edmund_pearce's review
adventurous
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Child death, Toxic friendship, and Murder
Moderate: Sexual harassment, Misogyny, and Rape
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Cursing, and Eating disorder
ergaich's review against another edition
1.0
This book included entirely unnecessary plots of rape and perpetuated rape culture and victim blaming.
This book could have been a really fun read, but every time I found myself starting to enjoy it again, something disturbing would happen. <spolier> The entire plot point of Charlotte falling in love with a grown man and getting so angry that he would not love her back that she FRAMED HIM is exactly what fuels the idea that young girls are crazy and “asking for it.” And to have Briony orchestrate Charlottes rape was absolutely unnecessary and straight up disturbing.</spolier> The book would have been complete and good without those two points so I fail to see how they compel the story.
I would heavily NOT recommend this to any self respecting feminist.
This book could have been a really fun read, but every time I found myself starting to enjoy it again, something disturbing would happen. <spolier> The entire plot point of Charlotte falling in love with a grown man and getting so angry that he would not love her back that she FRAMED HIM is exactly what fuels the idea that young girls are crazy and “asking for it.” And to have Briony orchestrate Charlottes rape was absolutely unnecessary and straight up disturbing.</spolier> The book would have been complete and good without those two points so I fail to see how they compel the story.
I would heavily NOT recommend this to any self respecting feminist.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Drug abuse, Rape, Blood, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Murder
Moderate: Eating disorder
whewtaewoon's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
"A Study in Charlotte" casts two descendants of the famous Sherlock and Watson in their own murder mystery. With one classmate dead, and another hospitalized, Jamie and Charlotte are looking like perfect suspects. Can they figure out who is behind this? Is one of them behind this? Will they both make it out alive, and free? So many questions, and only one way to find out.
I enjoyed this book, I thought it was very fun. It was a fairly easy read, although there's discussion of some difficult topics. I intend to continue reading this series and see where things go.
I enjoyed this book, I thought it was very fun. It was a fairly easy read, although there's discussion of some difficult topics. I intend to continue reading this series and see where things go.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Murder, Drug abuse, Rape, Drug use, Addiction, Child death, Death, and Sexual violence
mmage's review
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Murder, Bullying, and Death
Moderate: Addiction, Violence, Eating disorder, Abandonment, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Child abuse
lilifane's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.0
I can't believe I had this for 5 years and only read it now. Ooops. I almost gave it away last year... Thank god I'm stubborn and decided to read it first since I'd spent money on it. Because this was actually a lot of fun to read.
It's basically about Charlotte Holmes and Jamie Watson, two teenage descendants of the famous Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, who somehow end up at the same US boarding school when people start being murdered.
If you expect some kind of deep story, believable actions or lots of crime solving and plot twists... this is not it. Tbh, I was not interested in the mystery plot at all here. It's really an interpretation of Holmes and Watson as modern teenagers that made this interesting for me. And I enjoyed how they, their relationship and other known characters from Arthur Conan Doyle's stories are interpreted here. But what I loved the most was the banter and the humour in general. The book is told from Jamie's perspective, and it had me laugh out loud in the middle of the night several times. Really great one liners.
Guess, I will read the other books in the series as well now that I know what to expect from them.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Child death, Death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Murder
Minor: Rape
thewitchwhoreads's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
This was over all a really fun read. It was fast paced and and funny. Despite being a YA book the stakes felt sufficiently high, although the characters didn’t much talk or act like 16 year olds….which I didn’t really mind since I’m well out of that demographic anyway, but it was noticeable. The character development kinda went back and forth and left me feeling like neither of the main characters gained a lot of personal growth, but this is part of a series so perhaps I’m being too hard on it there. There was a dash of romance. It didn’t pull focus from the rest of the plot nor did it feel like insta-love. The mystery wasn’t the strongest part in my opinion. It just kinda felt like an average episode of Psych. But it was fun and I will probably read the next book and other things by this author.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape, Child death, and Drug use
Minor: Suicide, Violence, and Gun violence
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