sacp 's review for:

The Game (King, Laurie R) By Laurie R. King by Laurie R. King, Laurie R. King

3.0

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I found this book hard to rate. I think overall it deserves a 3.5 star rating and I wish goodreads allowed for those half stars. The story itself if probably the best Holmes/ Russell tale so far. It is fast paced and engaging. The writing is where King falls short this time. There are many repetitions and several long sequences where Russell merely describes what is happening instead of sharing what she is thinking/ feeling/ experiencing. It also left me with a lot of loose ends - why does O'Hara remind Russell of a murderer from France? Who tried to kill them in Adad? Who was the woman on the ship that knew Holmes? Unless these questions will be answered in future books, that seemed like lazy writing to me. We'll see what happens next, I suppose.