A review by wyrmie
The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison

Did not finish book. Stopped at 12%.
This is disappointing coming from Addison after her incredible book The Goblin Emperor. I was immediately put off when I saw the authors note that this started as a fanfic, I assumed with how talented Addison is with worldbuilding that she'd crafted a new world Holmes inspired, I assumed incorrectly. This remains a fanfic and should not have been published as an original novel. With what I read I immediately recognized that it was of the BBC version of sherlock, same mystery, same characterization. Ugh. The characters remained as bland and as terrible as BBC sherlock, Addison did nothing to change them besides slap some wings on Sherlock/Crow and give them different names. The mysteries were just retellings of the already told Holmes ones, and Addison can writ a mystery so idk why she'd just recycle. She should have taken this angel and monster lore she had going on and created new characters and new plotlines. It's like watching a knock off Disney movie. Nothing wrong with fanfic but fanfic and published literature are different. I also didn't appreciate the casual antisemitism 
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