pezski's review
4.0
A quick, fun read by Lovegrove, largely catching the tone and mood of the original Conan Doyle stories - and bringing a slightly more speculative fiction element sometimes found in ACDs non-Holmes stories, which just brushes the edge of steampunk. Oddly, one failing of the tone is that I found it difficult to differentiate between the voices of Holmes and Watson. Perhaps Lovegrove couldn't hep thinking of them as a single entity.
There are a number of these latter-day Holmes adventures, and i own several of them by both Lovegrove and [a:George Mann|54989|George Mann|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1294929283p2/54989.jpg] (an author deeply conversant with steampunk and Victoriana), and am looking forward to reading more.
There are a number of these latter-day Holmes adventures, and i own several of them by both Lovegrove and [a:George Mann|54989|George Mann|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1294929283p2/54989.jpg] (an author deeply conversant with steampunk and Victoriana), and am looking forward to reading more.
linwearcamenel's review
1.0
Holmes and Watson were so out of character as to be unbelievable. So was every other Canon character who appears. The author couldn't even be bothered to replicate their speech patterns correctly.
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