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annettebooksofhopeanddreams 's review for:
The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline
by Nancy Springer
Enola Holmes has certainly become one of my favorite characters ever. And maybe the book version even more than the movie version. (I think adding a love interest and possible love story to the movie may have ruined the Enola Holmes as she is in the books...) So, no matter what happens and no matter how many other books I have to read, I will make time every weekend for an Enola Holmes novel. (Well, I'll finish the last one next week...)
And this one was once again a truly nice story! The entire plot focusses on the case, mostly because this time the case hits very close to home, maybe even closer than the Watson case a few books back did. Enola's emotional investment really makes this case different from the other cases. She starts to make mistakes and she fails to make connections and in a way that's also really nice. It makes her human and very relatable. Especially because for once as a reader we can make some connections before Enola does.
Once more this book also shows ugly parts of society and especially the pressure it put on ladies. Although I don't really like the trope of invalids "faking it", I really understand where it comes from in this book and also why the character involved deemed it necessary. It says a lot about society, about the pressure on girls and the lengths they had to go to follow their dreams instead of being molded into perfect wives and mothers.
However, this case once more helped Sherlock Holmes to understand that what he thinks is best for his sister, might not actually be in her best interest. It took him five books to finally start to understand it, but we're getting there. And that's good for Enola, because can you imagine that a brilliant, free, creative and self reliant soul like Enola would not be able and allowed to use her talents anymore? Which, undoubtedly, was the story of a lot of girls in this time in history.
And this one was once again a truly nice story! The entire plot focusses on the case, mostly because this time the case hits very close to home, maybe even closer than the Watson case a few books back did. Enola's emotional investment really makes this case different from the other cases. She starts to make mistakes and she fails to make connections and in a way that's also really nice. It makes her human and very relatable. Especially because for once as a reader we can make some connections before Enola does.
Once more this book also shows ugly parts of society and especially the pressure it put on ladies. Although I don't really like the trope of invalids "faking it", I really understand where it comes from in this book and also why the character involved deemed it necessary. It says a lot about society, about the pressure on girls and the lengths they had to go to follow their dreams instead of being molded into perfect wives and mothers.
However, this case once more helped Sherlock Holmes to understand that what he thinks is best for his sister, might not actually be in her best interest. It took him five books to finally start to understand it, but we're getting there. And that's good for Enola, because can you imagine that a brilliant, free, creative and self reliant soul like Enola would not be able and allowed to use her talents anymore? Which, undoubtedly, was the story of a lot of girls in this time in history.