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Faction Paradox #5
Faction Paradox: Erasing Sherlock
On a fine October afternoon in 1882, Rose Donnelly, maid-of-all-work, disguises herself as a boy in order to follow the callow, yet brilliantly determined Sherlock Holmes in his pursuit of a thief.
Through narrow alleyways and cobbled lanes wedged between Whitechapel, Bethnal Green and the broad back of the City, she's led into deeper territory - worlds he knows well. So well, in fact, that he nearly has her collared on her first time out.
Still, Rose learns he has a bolt hole somewhere in Spitalfields. He speaks a smattering of Yiddish. He has a talent for picking pockets. He's a genius with the deceptively simple disguise.
It's a thrilling start. It's for her doctoral thesis. Or so she believes.
This is the fifth original Faction Paradox novel.
Through narrow alleyways and cobbled lanes wedged between Whitechapel, Bethnal Green and the broad back of the City, she's led into deeper territory - worlds he knows well. So well, in fact, that he nearly has her collared on her first time out.
Still, Rose learns he has a bolt hole somewhere in Spitalfields. He speaks a smattering of Yiddish. He has a talent for picking pockets. He's a genius with the deceptively simple disguise.
It's a thrilling start. It's for her doctoral thesis. Or so she believes.
This is the fifth original Faction Paradox novel.
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First published November 30, 2006
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April 24, 2012
There's one truly shocking line in the otherwise brilliant Erasing Sherlock, a sentence so unbelievably bad, so implausible and unlikely, that it suspends belief for a second, jerks the reader out of the narrative and leaves him glaring at the page, daring the words to re-assemble themselves into something which more nearly approximates to a sensible universe.
'After 3o years of writing short stories, Kelly Hale has had two published'
The Author's Note also mentions one novel co-authored for the BBC Doctor Who range and, of course, the current volume, in the copy to hand the penultimate novel in the Faction Paradox range of loosely linked novels.
One and a half novels and two short stories (actually now three, after I had the pleasure of publishing the quite lovely 'Big Horn Casino' in 'Iris: Abroad' last year) in 30 years for a writer as talented as Kelly Hale? That's horrible.
Anyway, enough of the soapbox stuff - what about Erasing Sherlock?
First thing to point out is that if anybody's worried that they don't know a bloody thing about this Faction Paradox malarkey, don't worry. As with all the best Faction stories, ES has only the most tenuous link to anything else in the series and, in truth, the actual Faction stuff occurs only very late on and has a very 'tacked on' feel to it (presumably the new Kindle version of the book removes the Faction entirely which will, I suspect, make it an even better book).
The second thing worth noting is that it's a fabulous novel, not a fabulous science fiction novel or a fabulous Sherlock Holmes sequel. True enough, it's the story of a modern day academic who goes back in time to study the real life Sherlock Holmes as part of her doctoral thesis into 19th century crime. But, no matter how that sounds, this is neither merely competent genre fiction nor simple above average pastiche.
Holmes and Watson live and breathe in this book in a way that brings to mind Conan Doyle himself rather than the ranks of hacks and cash-in artists who followed him, and Hale has clearly studied the more seedy elements of Victorian society and demonstrates that study on the page to great effect. Gillian Petra is a believable heroine and the story itself is a fascinating one, moving from serial killing in smog bound London to torture and murder near Krakatoa as it erupts and covers the world in ash.
But at the heart of the book is the relationship between Holmes, Watson and Petra. Hale thankfully doesn't shy away from...well, from anything. Actually, maybe it's that which prevented this novel from being a deservedly massive hit. Where it should have picked up impetus from Sherlockians desperate for new Holmesian adventures, it possibly scared them away by talking about - the horror! - periods, rape and masturbation, and by depicting the Great Detective as a sexual human being. But the fact is that, as with Hale's portrayal of Watson, nothing in the characterisation of Holmes feels askew. Rather, Holmes suddenly feels imbued with a third dimension (for reference, playing the fiddle and being a bit of a junkie do not a genuine personality make) and Watson becomes more than a mere cypher.
'I have a fondness for the game - the challenge and the chase - which I fear will fade once the puzzle of you has been pieced together...It is craven of me to want you the way I do, when I know I will not when you cease to be a mystery to me.'
I drew one hand dramatically across my brow. 'You have no affection for me? Mon Dieu. I shall die!' His mouth pursed in annoyance. 'If this is supposed to be an apology, it's a piss-poor one.'
Erasing Sherlock is a more up to date and modern take on Sherlock Holmes than the recent Robert Downey Jr movies or anything from the past 100 or so years of sequels, parodies and pastiches (though you can spot certain similarities with the new BBC tv series written, co-incidentally, by another couple of Doctor Who writers). As demonstrated by it's change from a prize winning entry in the North American Fiction prize in 2000, to its existence as a Faction Paradox novel in 2008 and now a Kindle standalone novel in 2011, it's good enough to work on any number of levels and with any amount of different emphases.
Seriously though - three short stories and one and half novels in thirty years? That's a bloody disgrace. Someone give this woman a three novel contract, now!
'After 3o years of writing short stories, Kelly Hale has had two published'
The Author's Note also mentions one novel co-authored for the BBC Doctor Who range and, of course, the current volume, in the copy to hand the penultimate novel in the Faction Paradox range of loosely linked novels.
One and a half novels and two short stories (actually now three, after I had the pleasure of publishing the quite lovely 'Big Horn Casino' in 'Iris: Abroad' last year) in 30 years for a writer as talented as Kelly Hale? That's horrible.
Anyway, enough of the soapbox stuff - what about Erasing Sherlock?
First thing to point out is that if anybody's worried that they don't know a bloody thing about this Faction Paradox malarkey, don't worry. As with all the best Faction stories, ES has only the most tenuous link to anything else in the series and, in truth, the actual Faction stuff occurs only very late on and has a very 'tacked on' feel to it (presumably the new Kindle version of the book removes the Faction entirely which will, I suspect, make it an even better book).
The second thing worth noting is that it's a fabulous novel, not a fabulous science fiction novel or a fabulous Sherlock Holmes sequel. True enough, it's the story of a modern day academic who goes back in time to study the real life Sherlock Holmes as part of her doctoral thesis into 19th century crime. But, no matter how that sounds, this is neither merely competent genre fiction nor simple above average pastiche.
Holmes and Watson live and breathe in this book in a way that brings to mind Conan Doyle himself rather than the ranks of hacks and cash-in artists who followed him, and Hale has clearly studied the more seedy elements of Victorian society and demonstrates that study on the page to great effect. Gillian Petra is a believable heroine and the story itself is a fascinating one, moving from serial killing in smog bound London to torture and murder near Krakatoa as it erupts and covers the world in ash.
But at the heart of the book is the relationship between Holmes, Watson and Petra. Hale thankfully doesn't shy away from...well, from anything. Actually, maybe it's that which prevented this novel from being a deservedly massive hit. Where it should have picked up impetus from Sherlockians desperate for new Holmesian adventures, it possibly scared them away by talking about - the horror! - periods, rape and masturbation, and by depicting the Great Detective as a sexual human being. But the fact is that, as with Hale's portrayal of Watson, nothing in the characterisation of Holmes feels askew. Rather, Holmes suddenly feels imbued with a third dimension (for reference, playing the fiddle and being a bit of a junkie do not a genuine personality make) and Watson becomes more than a mere cypher.
'I have a fondness for the game - the challenge and the chase - which I fear will fade once the puzzle of you has been pieced together...It is craven of me to want you the way I do, when I know I will not when you cease to be a mystery to me.'
I drew one hand dramatically across my brow. 'You have no affection for me? Mon Dieu. I shall die!' His mouth pursed in annoyance. 'If this is supposed to be an apology, it's a piss-poor one.'
Erasing Sherlock is a more up to date and modern take on Sherlock Holmes than the recent Robert Downey Jr movies or anything from the past 100 or so years of sequels, parodies and pastiches (though you can spot certain similarities with the new BBC tv series written, co-incidentally, by another couple of Doctor Who writers). As demonstrated by it's change from a prize winning entry in the North American Fiction prize in 2000, to its existence as a Faction Paradox novel in 2008 and now a Kindle standalone novel in 2011, it's good enough to work on any number of levels and with any amount of different emphases.
Seriously though - three short stories and one and half novels in thirty years? That's a bloody disgrace. Someone give this woman a three novel contract, now!
August 13, 2019
... Well then.
First of all, this is barely a Faction Paradox book. There's some time travel and media manipulation. There's a vague reference to the Celestis being behind stuff. There's a couple of crooks who call each other "cousin" a lot. That's about it.
It's got a plot, I guess, but 99% of it is just the main character shagging Sherlock Holmes and being sexually assaulted a lot and wanking out of boredom. The rest of it is people talking about sexual assault. Like, seriously, once a page on average. And Holmes falls madly in love with our narrator because she's just that clever and pretty or something.
The writing is okay. It's got good bits and it's got bad bits. Some lines really shine. Others fall flat, and are really blatantly just there to show off the author's research efforts. There's no real editing to speak of, with a million spelling and punctuation mistakes scattered throughout.
A lot of the Victoriana imagery is lovely — lanterns in the fog, gorgeous fabrics, and so on — but aside from that, I can't say I enjoyed the reading experience.
First of all, this is barely a Faction Paradox book. There's some time travel and media manipulation. There's a vague reference to the Celestis being behind stuff. There's a couple of crooks who call each other "cousin" a lot. That's about it.
It's got a plot, I guess, but 99% of it is just the main character shagging Sherlock Holmes and being sexually assaulted a lot and wanking out of boredom. The rest of it is people talking about sexual assault. Like, seriously, once a page on average. And Holmes falls madly in love with our narrator because she's just that clever and pretty or something.
The writing is okay. It's got good bits and it's got bad bits. Some lines really shine. Others fall flat, and are really blatantly just there to show off the author's research efforts. There's no real editing to speak of, with a million spelling and punctuation mistakes scattered throughout.
A lot of the Victoriana imagery is lovely — lanterns in the fog, gorgeous fabrics, and so on — but aside from that, I can't say I enjoyed the reading experience.
August 22, 2018
I have a bad habit. I avoid reading books I dearly want to like. This book has sat on my Kindle for 6 years without being read. That is not even the record. The last three TimeWars novels by Simon Hawke I have owned since I was a teenager. The shelf of Wild Cards books continues to grow with the last ten unread, 15 for the Discworld novels. I will read them one day. That day has come for Erasing Sherlock.
Some context (its relevent, I promise):
1. I recently finished reading, by the same or a related publisher I am not sure which, another original Sherlock Holmes novel that I was deeply disappointed by, and a collection from the same publisher that was definitely a mixed bag.
2. I came across a discussion online as to whether or not the lead character was a Mary Sue. I understand Mary Sue to mean, in the words of an essay by a contributor to the website The Mary Sue, "Nowadays, people tend to use “Mary Sue” as either a generalized term for a character who is too perfect and therefore underdeveloped, or, more often, a female character who dares to exist and be equal in skill and awesomeness to a male character. Rey from Star Wars is called a Mary Sue." https://www.themarysue.com/james-tibe...
As far as the first point goes, Erasing Sherlock is not a Holmes pastiche. The style is in no way reminiscent of Conan Doyle. It's exactly what it says in the blurb: sci fi, time travel research, something goes wrong. A tried and true formula that varies in quality from author to author. Ms Hale does it rather well. We are introduced to Edwardian London, Holmes, Watson, Lestrade, various other chartacers, the life of a servant, and various Holmesian apocrypha. His first name, his apparent youth etc. The main character and narrator is our time travelling researcher, she begins a relationship with Holmes that shakes her confidence in her own futuristic competence.
Which brings us neatly to context No 2, Rose is not a Mary Sue. She has plenty of foreknowledge but is investigating one of Holmes' cases that has gone unrecorded. She is by no stretch superhuman or unbelievable. No 25th Century karate, no inspired solving of cases for Holmes, nothing more than the confidence of a modern woman with resources and an education.
Reading this was a series of surprises, just when I had settled into reading a sci fi fan fic romance I was shaken out of my condescension and reverie to find a great deal of foreshadowing come together to reveal a much tighter and more sinister novel hidden underneath. I had not missed anything, but it had all been so subtly introduced as to be a shock when it all came together.
Anything else I would add will come under the spoiler category, so here is where I leave you. If you are wavering, pick this one up. It's worth your time.
Some context (its relevent, I promise):
1. I recently finished reading, by the same or a related publisher I am not sure which, another original Sherlock Holmes novel that I was deeply disappointed by, and a collection from the same publisher that was definitely a mixed bag.
2. I came across a discussion online as to whether or not the lead character was a Mary Sue. I understand Mary Sue to mean, in the words of an essay by a contributor to the website The Mary Sue, "Nowadays, people tend to use “Mary Sue” as either a generalized term for a character who is too perfect and therefore underdeveloped, or, more often, a female character who dares to exist and be equal in skill and awesomeness to a male character. Rey from Star Wars is called a Mary Sue." https://www.themarysue.com/james-tibe...
As far as the first point goes, Erasing Sherlock is not a Holmes pastiche. The style is in no way reminiscent of Conan Doyle. It's exactly what it says in the blurb: sci fi, time travel research, something goes wrong. A tried and true formula that varies in quality from author to author. Ms Hale does it rather well. We are introduced to Edwardian London, Holmes, Watson, Lestrade, various other chartacers, the life of a servant, and various Holmesian apocrypha. His first name, his apparent youth etc. The main character and narrator is our time travelling researcher, she begins a relationship with Holmes that shakes her confidence in her own futuristic competence.
Which brings us neatly to context No 2, Rose is not a Mary Sue. She has plenty of foreknowledge but is investigating one of Holmes' cases that has gone unrecorded. She is by no stretch superhuman or unbelievable. No 25th Century karate, no inspired solving of cases for Holmes, nothing more than the confidence of a modern woman with resources and an education.
Reading this was a series of surprises, just when I had settled into reading a sci fi fan fic romance I was shaken out of my condescension and reverie to find a great deal of foreshadowing come together to reveal a much tighter and more sinister novel hidden underneath. I had not missed anything, but it had all been so subtly introduced as to be a shock when it all came together.
Anything else I would add will come under the spoiler category, so here is where I leave you. If you are wavering, pick this one up. It's worth your time.
December 7, 2014
I'm not quite sure what to make of this book. One the one hand, there's some marvelous stuff here--a rather snarky modern graduate student who has somehow traveled into the past to study a decidedly real Sherlock Holmes. The characterizations are probably the strongest aspect of this novel. And if the lack of sex in the Mary Russell books annoys you, there's plenty to make up for that here, along with a level of ugly grittiness that will either shock or please readers, depending on their taste for such things.
Unfortunately, despite having a lot of good things going for it, the plot ends up exploding every which way, and although a lot of interesting clues get set up, we never do find out what's really going on. Where does Moriarty really figure in? Is Corkle just crazy, or is time travel more wibbly-wobbly than Gillian thinks? What is going to happen to Gillian? And to Sherlock? A big part of the purpose of a Sherlock Holmes story is to find out What. Really. Happened. Here, there's no resolution to the mystery. A cardinal sin in a Sherlock Holmes story, IMO. I would have given this book 4 stars if not for that.
I had no idea, when I read this book that it was part of a series, but other reviewers say that isn't important. But is it? Would reading the other books in the series help to explain the stuff that never does get explained in this book?
September 19, 2012
21st woman travels back in time to Victorian England in order to study Sherlock Holmes fornher doctoral thesis. Excellent premise for a truly excellent idea. Don't worry about finding a "Mary Sue" type of story over here. The protagonist maybe an intelligent, highly educated woman who of course falls in love with the detective but no way she is an almost perfect, annoying know it all gal. Instead she is as complex and well drawn character as one may hope and so are the others, including a 26 years old Sherlock and the ever gentleman Watson. In summary, the novel has everything a female sherlockian may want in a fiction and then some more.
A word of caution only: it has plenty of gore and sex. Lots of sex (between our protagonist and Holmes, in case you were wondering). I have to confess that the little puritan girl in me actually enjoyed the sex scenes but some readers may be offput by them, especially those who can't cope with Holmes being a sexual being. Just take in consideration this is a younger Holmes and that he is fascinated with the mistery of this particular woman so it doesn't seem so implausible to have him falling for her.
To finish: highly recommendable. And did I mention the narration is downright funny at times?
A word of caution only: it has plenty of gore and sex. Lots of sex (between our protagonist and Holmes, in case you were wondering). I have to confess that the little puritan girl in me actually enjoyed the sex scenes but some readers may be offput by them, especially those who can't cope with Holmes being a sexual being. Just take in consideration this is a younger Holmes and that he is fascinated with the mistery of this particular woman so it doesn't seem so implausible to have him falling for her.
To finish: highly recommendable. And did I mention the narration is downright funny at times?
December 25, 2023
A 'romance' that fails to get you invested in any part of the character's relationship outside the fact that one of the two is ~Sherlock Holmes~
The main character, despite apparently being such as fan of Real Historical Figure (in this universe) Sherlock Holmes, so much so that she goes back in time to study him, not only fails to add any historical nerd value to the reading experience (I, for one, would have been *delighted* to read a book written by a historian with a historian main character who gets the opportunity to time travel and is constantly in love with the scenery around them and constantly making notes of the real experience compared to what historians from their time believed), and instead spends 90% of her time grumbling about living surrounded by shit, being shocked at sexism, and going out in the 1870-1914's in skimpy dresses, getting drunk on expensive dates, and then being shocked when the guy she's going out with gets the wrong idea.
The main character has absolutely no chemistry with Sherlock Holmes, and maybe it is because I am ace, but I really question how anyone could find the sex scenes interesting to read, let alone *hot*.
Any interest I had in the premise of an AU time traveler studying real-historical-figure sherlock went out the window within a few pages, especially when the main character, who is apparently a Sherlock Holmes expert and is going back to study how smart he is................... decided that...... randomly stealing Sherlock's old shoes and *stalking him in his own shoes was somehow a good idea*, and we're supposed to believe this character is intelligent.
The main character is not particularly fun or interesting to get in her head as the main perspective character (unlike 'Dead Romance', or 'Warlords of Utopia', both also in the Faction Paradox Series), Sherlock is a random, sex-obsessed jackass, and honestly the only character I cared about by the end of this was John Watson, and he's very much a side character.
The whole slog of a novel I will probably never re-read (except, perhaps, to give a more coherent , detailed review) could have all been worth it in the end, if only it had lived up to the title...Which it unfortunately didn't.
Seeing the modern aftermath of this novel, as the main character returned to her own time, to find her beloved Sherlock Erased from history and reduced to a figment of Arthur Conan Doyle's imagination because of her unwitting actions? That would have been *powerful* and emotional. Instead, we got an extremely weak ending, and the only thing of note to Faction Paradox fans in this novel is the blink-and-you'll-miss-it Celestis lore.
The main character, despite apparently being such as fan of Real Historical Figure (in this universe) Sherlock Holmes, so much so that she goes back in time to study him, not only fails to add any historical nerd value to the reading experience (I, for one, would have been *delighted* to read a book written by a historian with a historian main character who gets the opportunity to time travel and is constantly in love with the scenery around them and constantly making notes of the real experience compared to what historians from their time believed), and instead spends 90% of her time grumbling about living surrounded by shit, being shocked at sexism, and going out in the 1870-1914's in skimpy dresses, getting drunk on expensive dates, and then being shocked when the guy she's going out with gets the wrong idea.
The main character has absolutely no chemistry with Sherlock Holmes, and maybe it is because I am ace, but I really question how anyone could find the sex scenes interesting to read, let alone *hot*.
Any interest I had in the premise of an AU time traveler studying real-historical-figure sherlock went out the window within a few pages, especially when the main character, who is apparently a Sherlock Holmes expert and is going back to study how smart he is................... decided that...... randomly stealing Sherlock's old shoes and *stalking him in his own shoes was somehow a good idea*, and we're supposed to believe this character is intelligent.
The main character is not particularly fun or interesting to get in her head as the main perspective character (unlike 'Dead Romance', or 'Warlords of Utopia', both also in the Faction Paradox Series), Sherlock is a random, sex-obsessed jackass, and honestly the only character I cared about by the end of this was John Watson, and he's very much a side character.
The whole slog of a novel I will probably never re-read (except, perhaps, to give a more coherent , detailed review) could have all been worth it in the end, if only it had lived up to the title...Which it unfortunately didn't.
Seeing the modern aftermath of this novel, as the main character returned to her own time, to find her beloved Sherlock Erased from history and reduced to a figment of Arthur Conan Doyle's imagination because of her unwitting actions? That would have been *powerful* and emotional. Instead, we got an extremely weak ending, and the only thing of note to Faction Paradox fans in this novel is the blink-and-you'll-miss-it Celestis lore.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 7, 2023
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Last of the books I bought when I was thinking of giving the Faction Paradox sequence a try, and I must say the most enjoyable of those that I have read, perhaps because it is barely connected to the incomprehensible main story-line. Our protagonist is a far-future researcher who installs herself as a maid at 221b Baker Street in order to observe the young Sherlock Holmes at work. Romance, sex and criminal violence ensue. I really liked it. Hale’s Sherlock Holmes is not the somewhat austere figure of Doyle (and indeed most theatrical presentations); he’s a young man starting to establish himself, often short of money, emotionally vulnerable, and a lot more convincing as a human being. Good stuff.
Last of the books I bought when I was thinking of giving the Faction Paradox sequence a try, and I must say the most enjoyable of those that I have read, perhaps because it is barely connected to the incomprehensible main story-line. Our protagonist is a far-future researcher who installs herself as a maid at 221b Baker Street in order to observe the young Sherlock Holmes at work. Romance, sex and criminal violence ensue. I really liked it. Hale’s Sherlock Holmes is not the somewhat austere figure of Doyle (and indeed most theatrical presentations); he’s a young man starting to establish himself, often short of money, emotionally vulnerable, and a lot more convincing as a human being. Good stuff.
August 16, 2025
Oh my GOODNESS, this was dark. I have one left, and then I'm selling off my Faction Paradox books. They're way too icky for me. Too much rape and sex and Sherlock isn't LIKE THIS. And Rose was a stupid character.
Three stars, just because it was better than some of the other ones, but oh my GOSH. And very little Faction at all. It was most just a weird future + past mix story, mixed with sacrifice and lots of gore.
Three stars, just because it was better than some of the other ones, but oh my GOSH. And very little Faction at all. It was most just a weird future + past mix story, mixed with sacrifice and lots of gore.
October 17, 2017
A cracking little novel which is essentially crack for every die-hard Sherlock Holmes who secretly fantasises about travelling back in time and spending time with their hero. Highly recommended.
November 30, 2014
Such an unusual book! It's about a grad student who travels back in time to study Sherlock Holmes early in his career. But it turns out other people have traveled there as well, and they have a different and more sinister agenda. Holmes figures out something is amiss and starts investigating, but he's missing the critical piece of information: these people are from the future.
I'm not sure of the publication history of this book. It seems to have been released at one time as part of a "Faction Paradox" series, but the version I read was a self-published stand-alone novel (perhaps the author got the rights back?). At any rate, rest assured that you don't need to read any other books before this one; I read it as a stand-alone and noticed nothing that suggested there were earlier books I'd missed.
The collision of modern values with Victorian ones is really captured well here. The grad student heroine fully understands the cultural differences when she travels back in time, but living in it and dealing with issues of class and gender when she has no safety net to fall back on is an entirely different thing. It's a very physical book, quite dark at times, and occasionally gross, as sexuality and bodily functions are treated realistically.
There is kind of a romance between the heroine and Sherlock Holmes, and kind of not. They are involved, but he is sometimes nasty to her, and her to him. Their troubled relationship is fascinating. I wasn't wild about the ending, but I forgive that because this was such a cool book. If you like your fiction on the edgy side, pick this one up.
I'm not sure of the publication history of this book. It seems to have been released at one time as part of a "Faction Paradox" series, but the version I read was a self-published stand-alone novel (perhaps the author got the rights back?). At any rate, rest assured that you don't need to read any other books before this one; I read it as a stand-alone and noticed nothing that suggested there were earlier books I'd missed.
The collision of modern values with Victorian ones is really captured well here. The grad student heroine fully understands the cultural differences when she travels back in time, but living in it and dealing with issues of class and gender when she has no safety net to fall back on is an entirely different thing. It's a very physical book, quite dark at times, and occasionally gross, as sexuality and bodily functions are treated realistically.
There is kind of a romance between the heroine and Sherlock Holmes, and kind of not. They are involved, but he is sometimes nasty to her, and her to him. Their troubled relationship is fascinating. I wasn't wild about the ending, but I forgive that because this was such a cool book. If you like your fiction on the edgy side, pick this one up.
November 20, 2014
Unbelievably awesome!
This book is a must-read. Time travel, Sherlock Holmes as you've never seen him, a believable heroine and steamy love scenes. Where's the sequel??
The writing is lovely, the story engaging and flawless. I loved this book.
This book is a must-read. Time travel, Sherlock Holmes as you've never seen him, a believable heroine and steamy love scenes. Where's the sequel??
The writing is lovely, the story engaging and flawless. I loved this book.
March 15, 2015
First three quarters of this book were incredible and blew my mind. Fascinating idea well executed. Not sure why but the last part jarred for me - maybe it felt a little rushed, or maybe I didn't want Rose to go, or maybe just not quite as magical and more violent.
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