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A Study in Charlotte (Charlotte Holmes, #1)

Brittany Cavallaro

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Mar 27, 2020 Lauren rated it liked it

Shelves: audiobooks, mystery, revenge, retellings, young-adult

A Study in Charlotte
3 Stars

Charlotte Holmes and James Watson are the modern-day teenage descendants of Arthur Conan Doyle's illustrious characters. Studying at Sherringford, a prestigious private school, Holmes and Watson are framed for the murder of a classmate and must work together to solve the crime and clear their names.

Unfortunately, this retelling is very disappointing. To begin with, neither Holmes nor Watson are particularly interesting or likable characters, and they come across as no ...more

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Sep 08, 2018 Susan (susayq ~) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ebooks, 1st-in-series, mystery, ya, 2018books, scottsborolibrarychallenge2018

Charlotte and Jamie

This was an interesting remake of Holmes and Watson. Charlotte was a little hard for me to warm up to but after reading the epilogue, I liked her more. Jamie was Great. I'll check out more of this series. ...more

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Jun 20, 2018 Rachel rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I really enjoyed this book. Basically you’ve got a female modern high school student Sherlock Holmes and her teenage male (lovable dummy) of a sidekick in Watson. Ok, Watson isn’t dumb, he’s just dumb enough to play the foil to Holmes.
The gender dynamics were fun, the mystery was extra and completely unbelievable, but that’s part of the fun.
I didn’t know a lot about the book when I started reading and I was pages in when I realized Watson (who was telling the story) was male and not female. Shru ...more

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