krystal_swan5 's review for:

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

5.0

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I picked this up to pre-read because one of my kids is supposed to read it for school next year, and because I’m doing a book challenge that lists “a classic detective novel” as one of the categories. So it seemed a good way to kill two birds with one stone. Technically, this is a reread for me, but it’s been so long since I’ve read it that I’d forgotten almost all of the details. It’s soooooo good. Sherlock Holmes has been a favorite of mine since childhood. I love the original works, I love the spin-offs, the movies, the TV shows. Yep, all of it. Because of that nostalgia, this was the perfect book to reach for in the middle of a pandemic. A “comfort read”, I guess. But maybe I’m the only one who finds comfort in mysterious moors, dark family legends, and terrifying hell-hounds.