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A review by creepella
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
Did not finish book.
Well I gave it 100 pages and I don't like it. But I'll be nice and give it 1.5 stars.
My first big beef is the age difference. I could understand a 30 year old with a 45 year old. I do not understand (and do not accept) a romance between Mary and Holmes. She was 15 when they met and he was 54, I believe. That really puts me off. Oh and, I'm sorry, even in his old age, I don't buy Holmes being in a relationship, let alone getting married!
I still can't get over the way King talked about Watson (even though I've only read one or two stories, from what I understand, Watson is actually quite intelligent). And I'm sorry, you picked this series, why are you bashing one of the main characters?!
I started getting put off this book with the introduction, the editor's preface and the "author's" note. It just felt a little...honestly a little arrogant. I'm all for being confident and satisfied with one's accomplishments, especially writing and publishing a book (!), but this went a little too far. AND in the introduction to a book drawing (heavily) from the Sherlock Holmes's series, don't put down that series, especially since you're profiting from that series....I'm just saying...
I really wanted to like Mary Russell because the idea of her character was awesome, but sheesh. She was quite obnoxious (to be fair, I do think she calls herself precocious or something similar) and she is a teenager, but she ended up being not quite as clever as she thought she was. While Mary talked about Watson's need to keep asking Holmes what was going during an investigation, she ended up doing the same thing!
The writing was nice and pretty easy to read (I did read this in about a day), but I don't like the age difference, I really didn't care for her treatment of Watson and I never could warm to Mary. I don't think I'll be reading anything else by this author and I don't recommend this...obviously.
My first big beef is the age difference. I could understand a 30 year old with a 45 year old. I do not understand (and do not accept) a romance between Mary and Holmes. She was 15 when they met and he was 54, I believe. That really puts me off. Oh and, I'm sorry, even in his old age, I don't buy Holmes being in a relationship, let alone getting married!
I still can't get over the way King talked about Watson (even though I've only read one or two stories, from what I understand, Watson is actually quite intelligent). And I'm sorry, you picked this series, why are you bashing one of the main characters?!
I started getting put off this book with the introduction, the editor's preface and the "author's" note. It just felt a little...honestly a little arrogant. I'm all for being confident and satisfied with one's accomplishments, especially writing and publishing a book (!), but this went a little too far. AND in the introduction to a book drawing (heavily) from the Sherlock Holmes's series, don't put down that series, especially since you're profiting from that series....I'm just saying...
I really wanted to like Mary Russell because the idea of her character was awesome, but sheesh. She was quite obnoxious (to be fair, I do think she calls herself precocious or something similar) and she is a teenager, but she ended up being not quite as clever as she thought she was. While Mary talked about Watson's need to keep asking Holmes what was going during an investigation, she ended up doing the same thing!
The writing was nice and pretty easy to read (I did read this in about a day), but I don't like the age difference, I really didn't care for her treatment of Watson and I never could warm to Mary. I don't think I'll be reading anything else by this author and I don't recommend this...obviously.