However, this is the second book in a trilogy, and although I was able to pick up what had happened in the first one, it did detract from my enjoyment because I only got brief references to the previous story in this book. I have read various Sherlock Holmes books that have been written, other than the originals by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and have enjoyed them all, and this was no exception. I can't bring myself to recommend the series, but I don't regret reading it, and it's even kind of fun at times. In fact, the book would work better with Conan Doyle’s own Professor Challenger as the protagonist, but I'll concede that he's not as well known.Īt heart, this is basically fan fiction, but it's not a bad example of such. In these novels, Holmes is more of an adventurer than a detective. As with volume one, Gresh’s Lovecraftian elements feel truer to their source material than her Sherlockian elements. I think I like this book slightly better than the first one. And a possibly significant weapon is discovered. Most of the book is about further developing characters and having people travel to where they need to be for the third book. Since this is a middle book, not a whole lot gets resolved. You could probably get away with starting here if you were so inclined, but there will be semi-cryptic references to events in the first book, and there will definitely be spoilers as far as who survives. Okay, well for starters, this is the middle volume of a projected trilogy.
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