bookcraft's review
2.0
Very disappointing. The idea is a good one, but the execution is lacking.
Sloppy third-person limited POV that's meant to be omniscient, overly quirky characters who're thinly veiled bastardizations of other literary characters—Holmes and Watson analogues who are, in this incarnation, closer to Burke and Hare; a "private asylum" run by the unseen Bertha Rochester, etc. If this were fanfic, it would be labelled crack, and poorly written crack at that.
I'm going to go ahead and read the second book in the series since I already have it in hand, but my hopes aren't high.
Sloppy third-person limited POV that's meant to be omniscient, overly quirky characters who're thinly veiled bastardizations of other literary characters—Holmes and Watson analogues who are, in this incarnation, closer to Burke and Hare; a "private asylum" run by the unseen Bertha Rochester, etc. If this were fanfic, it would be labelled crack, and poorly written crack at that.
I'm going to go ahead and read the second book in the series since I already have it in hand, but my hopes aren't high.
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