Suzette Hollingsworth
Autor(a) de Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Sword Princess (The Great Detective in Love) (Volume 1)
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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Sword Princess (The Great Detective in Love) (Volume 1) (1601) 27 cópias
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 7
- Membros
- 40
- Popularidade
- #370,100
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Resenhas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 8
Someone in the reviews described this as “Sherlock Holmes in Darcy mode” and, frankly, that person doesn’t really understand either character if the review was genuine. I picked this ebook up with visions of Mrs Hudson, rolling pin in hand, giving everyone’s favorite detective a good thwack for making advances on her niece. Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s going to ever happen.
Mirabella (whose name upsets my autocorrect to no end), is a fairly run of the mill OC. She’s pretty, but she doesn’t believe it. She’s high spirited and doesn’t know when to shut her pie hole, but never suffers for it. She’s interested in chemistry and forensics and, overall, she’s Not Like Other Girls. She’s a sexy lamp who wants a chemistry degree. I’m sorry, I don’t like her.
Holmes and Watson are, upon further inspection, probably based off of their TV counterparts (think BBC Sherlock and not Jeremy Brett). Which is unfortunate because the author chose to set the story in the 19th century and not the 21st (I decided to stop reading because contact lenses were mentioned when the story takes place a full four-ish years before they were developed for general use.) and didn’t bother to use period accurate language.
Holmes is an ass in this story, which is in character for the Cumberbatch version, but not so much for the original. Watson is more Nigel Bruce than Martin Freeman.
The really sad part about this is that the plot is fantastic. Wild Eastern European princess finds herself in peril at the London finishing school? International intrigue? Forbidden romance? I’m there! Maybe, at some point in the future, when I find myself with more patience, I’ll go back and finish this one. But for now, it’s firmly on the DNF shelf.… (mais)