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A review by hollidayreadswithme
A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro
5.0
I basically swore that I wasn’t going to pick up any more YA romance novels and this book basically just tricked me into it. I picked up A Question of Holmes at the library, basically not realizing that it was the fourth book in the series and now I’m in a race to finish the first three books before the fourth is due back. With that in mind, I thought this was going to be a retelling of some of the Sherlock Holmes stories but with the gender switched.
This first book is so great! I was watching TV when I started it and then kept reading into the night. I was very interested to see that they were a lot of things that were kept in, including the drug use of the Holmes even though the Holmes in question here is a 16 year old girl. There were some trigger worthy things that occurred in the book or rather were alluded to and maybe I’ve just because desensitized to them; I don’t know but if I was younger and read this, I would probably be very not happy.
I think the craziest part of all of this is that there are so many aspects that are the same and yet so much that is different. I was very excited to hear that there were four books but I worry with such a strong first that the others might be a let down.
I guessed who the culprit was halfway through the book and then I was just confused for most of the ending. I think that there are a couple of things that could have been dealt with a little better but for some reason I don’t think that it would have come together the same way.
I was very pleasantly surprised at this and will be continuing the series
This first book is so great! I was watching TV when I started it and then kept reading into the night. I was very interested to see that they were a lot of things that were kept in, including the drug use of the Holmes even though the Holmes in question here is a 16 year old girl. There were some trigger worthy things that occurred in the book or rather were alluded to and maybe I’ve just because desensitized to them; I don’t know but if I was younger and read this, I would probably be very not happy.
I think the craziest part of all of this is that there are so many aspects that are the same and yet so much that is different. I was very excited to hear that there were four books but I worry with such a strong first that the others might be a let down.
I guessed who the culprit was halfway through the book and then I was just confused for most of the ending. I think that there are a couple of things that could have been dealt with a little better but for some reason I don’t think that it would have come together the same way.
I was very pleasantly surprised at this and will be continuing the series