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Books read for May:
-Seaward
-The Ice Palace Murders
-The Beekeeper's Apprentice
-Justice at Risk
-Sherlock Holmes, The Veiled Detective
Total: 24
Very nearly halfway to my goal! Which is good because I may have to slow down for final fantasy big bang.
Seaward-
Cute. Short. A bit dated, but still an excellent piece of young adult fiction.
The Ice Palace Murders-
A Holmes that is much too sharp and poor mannered for my liking, but not a bad mystery overall. I enjoyed the original characters, and it seemed like the setting was well researched - everything was easy to visualize. Sadly, I have two more Holmes novels to read by this author, so I suppose I'll try to get them out of the way sooner rather than later, since I'm not crazy about this guy's depiction of Holmes.
The Beekeeper's Apprentice-
It's frustrating that this author is so good and yet suffers so badly from Mary Sueism. Her Holmes is fantastic, she's a bit unkind to Watson which loses her points. The female lead who she is romantically setting up with holmes at a third his age makes me want to vomit. In and of herself, it's not too bad, but may/december romances are so far from being 'my thing' that they make me queasy. I wish this could just be like an uncle/niece relationship so that I could read the rest of these books. Also the inclusion of Moriarty's supergenius daughter trying to blow everyone up for revenge is a bit... okay, yeah.
Justice at Risk-
Total fluff. Fun fluff, at least. I tore through it in just a couple days, as I usually do with Ben Justice books. I'm still trying to decide if I should keep them or if I'll probably never read them again.
The Veiled Detective-
Juvenile. Quick, but very bad. An alternate take on Study in Scarlet through The Final Problem/Empty House. A poor idea badly executed.
-The Ice Palace Murders
-The Beekeeper's Apprentice
-Justice at Risk
-Sherlock Holmes, The Veiled Detective
Total: 24
Very nearly halfway to my goal! Which is good because I may have to slow down for final fantasy big bang.
Seaward-
Cute. Short. A bit dated, but still an excellent piece of young adult fiction.
The Ice Palace Murders-
A Holmes that is much too sharp and poor mannered for my liking, but not a bad mystery overall. I enjoyed the original characters, and it seemed like the setting was well researched - everything was easy to visualize. Sadly, I have two more Holmes novels to read by this author, so I suppose I'll try to get them out of the way sooner rather than later, since I'm not crazy about this guy's depiction of Holmes.
The Beekeeper's Apprentice-
It's frustrating that this author is so good and yet suffers so badly from Mary Sueism. Her Holmes is fantastic, she's a bit unkind to Watson which loses her points. The female lead who she is romantically setting up with holmes at a third his age makes me want to vomit. In and of herself, it's not too bad, but may/december romances are so far from being 'my thing' that they make me queasy. I wish this could just be like an uncle/niece relationship so that I could read the rest of these books. Also the inclusion of Moriarty's supergenius daughter trying to blow everyone up for revenge is a bit... okay, yeah.
Justice at Risk-
Total fluff. Fun fluff, at least. I tore through it in just a couple days, as I usually do with Ben Justice books. I'm still trying to decide if I should keep them or if I'll probably never read them again.
The Veiled Detective-
Juvenile. Quick, but very bad. An alternate take on Study in Scarlet through The Final Problem/Empty House. A poor idea badly executed.
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Michael Hardwick is FANTASTIC, as I have just discovered. I began reading The Revenge of The Hound, and both his Holmes and Watson are spot on. A glowing review is in the works for when I finish it. Meyer and Chabon have been my favourites so far. I will definitely look up Prisoner of the Devil, and thank you for the suggestion because I didn't know he'd written any other pastiches besides Revenge of the Hound.
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Ahhh, if you ever get back into writing L/R, that'd be great! There are barely any of their fics out there... perhaps a grand total of 3 on ff.net? I wish there'd be a long one somewhere...
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There are also a couple of otherwise unpublished (at least I think I haven't seen them anywhere else) fics up at
http://community.livejournal.com/licensedbyroyal/
Sadly that community is mostly dead, however. It is, truly, an obscure fandom.
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Still, much thanks. I didn't even know there was a L/R LJ community! I didn't think it was big enough to have one. *laughs*