Author: Holly Hepburn
Publisher: Boldwood Books LTD
A Really Bad Summary:
This one girl really loves the idea of Sherlock Holmes, massive fan of his. Unfortunately, no one has heard from him for a really long time and his beloved assistant took it upon herself to solve mysteries left and right. Small and doable mysteries that she can do on her own.
Until one phone call that needed the brilliant detective.
What is she to do? Disappoint a client? Or do it in the name of helping out the great detective?
Review:
This book really has immense potential. For lovers of classic mysteries like Agatha Christie’s Poirot and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes this book is a wonderful homage and tribute. But I do think that the book is stuck on being a tribute that it forgot to have it’s own identity. I do believe the saying “What would Sherlock Holmes do?” when writing a book that is an homage but the narrative seems to be really stuck on writing just another Sherlock Holmes that the writer forgot how to create an entirely new character. Other than the fact that she was a woman, there wasn’t much different. Procedure was the same and approach was similar. Though you can say that there was more of a political statement – an obvious feminist approach. But I do believe that more can be done in this thing other than mentioning how she can’t do a lot of things because she Is female.
Also… show me things!!!! Don’t just tell me things!!! Please let me make my imagination run at full force and not just tell me how I should do it. A lot of the scenarios could be more imaginative and not dictated. Ok, what I mean is if the room is cold tell me how there is frost inside the room or your fingers turning purple or the liquid in the glass has turned to ice — some thing! If it was done this way, it would be more effective in generating and keeping the mystery aspect of the narrative. It’s just a really watered down version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s books. It’s like the audiences are treated as if the readers can no longer follow the prose in which the original was written.
~~~ tHAT is all folks…
