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A review by booking_along
The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
this did have a very Doyle-esc feel to the writing and story telling and if it wouldn’t have been as long and a bit dragged out it would have felt like an actual real Holmes story.
so clearly this author can write and tell a story in ways that if you love the original holmes stories by doyle this is a good addition.
i even enjoyed the mystery.
but this book was a 100 pages or so to long for me.
look i love running around with Holmes in any format i can get it in (movies, shows or books? give it to me!) but i like the shorter format of how it’s mostly done with the individual cases.
Holmes does his work in a way (and it is done well jn this book, just a smithed to slow for me to love it!) when the spectator sees him take everything in, question some situations, visit a place or two and then does his big reveal of the case as if it should have been obvious from the second the time was seen.
trying to add some layers to that never works for me.
that’s a personal preference but it’s my review so: i didn’t love this but i enjoyed it okay.
i think it’s a good addition to the Holmes book series and it’s a nice read overall.
but be prepared that it can get a bit slow in the middle.
so clearly this author can write and tell a story in ways that if you love the original holmes stories by doyle this is a good addition.
i even enjoyed the mystery.
but this book was a 100 pages or so to long for me.
look i love running around with Holmes in any format i can get it in (movies, shows or books? give it to me!) but i like the shorter format of how it’s mostly done with the individual cases.
Holmes does his work in a way (and it is done well jn this book, just a smithed to slow for me to love it!) when the spectator sees him take everything in, question some situations, visit a place or two and then does his big reveal of the case as if it should have been obvious from the second the time was seen.
trying to add some layers to that never works for me.
that’s a personal preference but it’s my review so: i didn’t love this but i enjoyed it okay.
i think it’s a good addition to the Holmes book series and it’s a nice read overall.
but be prepared that it can get a bit slow in the middle.