3.5

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle
Book
April
2021

Review:

I did not like this book. The short stories were sometimes confusing and boring. There were only two that revolved around murder, and one of them was not even murdered. There were no plot twists, and it was plainly just a short story. I think they probably do better in the later books and movies. My favorite that revolves around these characters is still Enola Holmes. She is just so clever but doesn’t solve the mystery too easily. That was one of my main issues with the story. It was just too easy, and he knew everything. He was also a bit of a jerk about his knowledge and held it over other people's heads. I may read future books to get a better sense of him as a character. The great thing that came out of this book is watching Enola Holmes again.

Trigger Warnings:
Ableism and Racism

Synopsis From Book:

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including 'The Red-Headed League', 'The Blue Carbuncle', and 'The Speckled Band'. Although Holmes gained a reputation for infallibility, Conan Doyle showed his own realism and feminism by having the great detective defeated by Irene Adler - the woman - in the very first story, 'A Scandal in Bohemia'.
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