surrendersouls's reviews
4 reviews

Library book due and I can’t renew it. I’ll read it some other time!

I feel like the stories degraded in quality as they went along and were generally not as enjoyable as in the previous collection. Some stories don’t even seem like Holmes is solving a mystery at all, just getting the information in the end. Like in the Gloria Scott, what did he do there? He showed up. We love him for that

I’m not sure if the stories got better over the course of the book, or maybe I just got settled in with the style. It’s partially formulaic, but it has a wide array of mysteries and crimes and different enough plots in each that it didn’t become the same thing again and again. Also at points it became kind of horror themed? A man got locked in a hydraulic press that was going to crush him in one story, had me on the edge of my seat. If you stop and read slowly, playing the scenes in your head, you can really get a taste of the characters, and I find Holmes to be delightful to read about.