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A review by annettebooksofhopeanddreams
The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye: An Enola Holmes Mystery by Nancy Springer
5.0
When I started the movie I had no idea that it was based on a book. But I'm a bookworm. The moment I discover there are books, I want the books. And in this case, the moment the books came in I actually read them right away. The first book felt a little dull compared to the action packed movie, but with each book I fell more and more in love with this version of Enola, who really doesn't need a man and really finds her own way in life. And today it was time for the last book.
I was quite curious how everything would get wrapped up. There was still the mystery of Enola's mother's disappearance after all. Apart from some letters and messages not much attention had gone to it, but it was one of the things that really had to be resolved. And it was. Maybe not in a spectacular way, but in a heartbreaking way. I cried my eyes out. I'm pretty sure the movie is gonna do something else completely, but for the books the ending felt very fitting.
Just like the one last case of a missing girl Enola has to solve in this book. We've seen so many different parts of society and this book focussed on corsets and how disastrous they can be. Just like the previous books the picture we were confronted with was raw, painful and very sad. However, once more the case is more than just a case. It's another piece of the puzzle that we needed to resolved the last issue that needed to be resolved.
After all, Mycroft was still threatening Enola with a strict boarding school teaching her to become a lady. Apart from solving the case and apart from finding out what happened to Eudoria, this book is about Sherlock and Mycroft seeing for themselves that Enola doesn't need that boarding school, that she is smart enough to deal with life and to find her way and that she is beautiful and perfect just the way she is and doesn't need changing.
Like Eudoria would probably say to her daughter (and sons): Some people are not meant to be wives and mothers and shouldn't be forced to be.
I was quite curious how everything would get wrapped up. There was still the mystery of Enola's mother's disappearance after all. Apart from some letters and messages not much attention had gone to it, but it was one of the things that really had to be resolved. And it was. Maybe not in a spectacular way, but in a heartbreaking way. I cried my eyes out. I'm pretty sure the movie is gonna do something else completely, but for the books the ending felt very fitting.
Just like the one last case of a missing girl Enola has to solve in this book. We've seen so many different parts of society and this book focussed on corsets and how disastrous they can be. Just like the previous books the picture we were confronted with was raw, painful and very sad. However, once more the case is more than just a case. It's another piece of the puzzle that we needed to resolved the last issue that needed to be resolved.
After all, Mycroft was still threatening Enola with a strict boarding school teaching her to become a lady. Apart from solving the case and apart from finding out what happened to Eudoria, this book is about Sherlock and Mycroft seeing for themselves that Enola doesn't need that boarding school, that she is smart enough to deal with life and to find her way and that she is beautiful and perfect just the way she is and doesn't need changing.
Like Eudoria would probably say to her daughter (and sons): Some people are not meant to be wives and mothers and shouldn't be forced to be.