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Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose by Nancy Springer
3 reviews
amiew's review against another edition
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
bookbrig's review
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
3.0
I liked all the fashion in this installment, but I was less charmed by the story and by Enola than I have been in the past. The story felt more haphazard and erratic, but that might just be me as an adult reader, so I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it. This may be my last foray into the series, but I still have a fondness for all the earlier books.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death
jilljemmett's review
4.0
Enola Holmes, the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes, is a scientific perditorian, which means she finds lost things. The author Rudyard Kipling bursts into her office one day, demanding that she find his friend, Wolcott Balestier. However, when he discovers that the perditorian is a teenage girl, he doesn’t hire her, but hires Sherlock instead. Enola won’t accept being passed over for a man, so she still conducts her own investigation to find the missing man.
I love the character Enola Holmes. She’s dedicated to solving mysteries, and won’t let anyone say she can’t do something because she’s a woman. This story took an unexpected turn into looking at rabies. Through her investigation, Enola met a doctor who studied rabies and was developing a vaccine from the brains and spinal cords of dogs and rabbits who died from rabies. Though animal testing for medication and other things has been done throughout history, it’s not something we promote today. In the author’s note, she says that there was no evidence of a rabid dog in the lives of the real people who are mentioned in the story, so it seems like an unusual topic to include in this story.
Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose was a great new Enola Holmes mystery.
Thank you Wednesday Books for sending me a copy of this book!
Content warnings: rabies, animal testing, animal death (mentions), stabbing, kidnapping
I love the character Enola Holmes. She’s dedicated to solving mysteries, and won’t let anyone say she can’t do something because she’s a woman. This story took an unexpected turn into looking at rabies. Through her investigation, Enola met a doctor who studied rabies and was developing a vaccine from the brains and spinal cords of dogs and rabbits who died from rabies. Though animal testing for medication and other things has been done throughout history, it’s not something we promote today. In the author’s note, she says that there was no evidence of a rabid dog in the lives of the real people who are mentioned in the story, so it seems like an unusual topic to include in this story.
Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose was a great new Enola Holmes mystery.
Thank you Wednesday Books for sending me a copy of this book!
Content warnings: rabies, animal testing, animal death (mentions), stabbing, kidnapping
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death and Kidnapping
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