Sherlockian Blether

[Louise]

So, this is the book I've been reading. It's a Sherlock Holmes story (funny how they get called pastiches, when what they are is *fanfic*). I'm a little more than halfway through it, and so far it's pretty good, so unless it somehow totally falls apart at the end, I'd recommend it.





I think BBC Sherlock was fun for a while, and I haven't seen the Ritchie movies or Elementary; I'm pretty much an old-school ACD and Granada fan. This author does a very good job of imitating that classic Watson-voice narration. I would give it maybe an 85 to 90 percent, in terms of seeming like an actual ACD story.

It seems like most authors can't resist the urge to make Holmes just a *little* warmer and softer than he was in the stories, but it's not egregious, here.

Oh, and it's about Jack the Ripper, if you're into that. The descriptions of the crime scene are graphic but not overly detailed or lengthy. Holmes and Watson are pretty much IC, so I give the author points for that. There's no romance of any kind and no attempts at twisting or re-imagining the Holmes canon; it's pretty much just a straightforward murder case.

So, yeah, good book