A review by tobyyy
The Dark Lady by Irene Adler

3.0

This was a fun, quick, lighthearted MG tale of young Sherlock, young Irene Adler, and young Lupin. They meet for the first time in Saint-Malo and become fast friends fairly quickly… and then a dead body washes up on the beach and they get entangled in solving the mystery.

The main thing that brought the star rating down was there was a LOT of yelling rather than showing. Yes, this is a MG book but I feel like there are ways to show and not tell for most concepts for the typical MG reader. Not all, but most.

But aside from that, this was a fun read and one that definitely functioned well as nightmare antidote.