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mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
I’m not sure if the stories got better over the course of the book, or maybe I just got settled in with the style. It’s partially formulaic, but it has a wide array of mysteries and crimes and different enough plots in each that it didn’t become the same thing again and again. Also at points it became kind of horror themed? A man got locked in a hydraulic press that was going to crush him in one story, had me on the edge of my seat. If you stop and read slowly, playing the scenes in your head, you can really get a taste of the characters, and I find Holmes to be delightful to read about.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Murder, Alcohol, and Colonisation
Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Slavery, and Death of parent
Period typical bigotry for the time and place, but mild and not the basis of stories