Review: Simplistic and not well written
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 23, 2012
I fortunately downloaded this book for free through my Kindle, I would have been sorely disappointed to spend money on this novelette. First off, there is no real introduction (in fact the Kindle edition has no cover, and no acknowledgement page etc. at all). Secondly the language used does not ring true. Mycroft asks Lestrade if he can return to his apartment. Well, he is British, in modern times he would say 'flat' but the Mycroft of the time would more likely say 'lodgings', not flat.The story line was far too simplistic, and there is not enough detail. It reads like a poor attempt to be Doyle, and fails miserably. The POV changes all the time too - from Mycroft, to Tobias, to Lestrade. That is an indicator of poor writing. In the original books everything filtered through Watson, so if Lestrade was explaining something, it was done through dialogue; not directly through Lestrade. At one point Tobias leaves Mycroft to investigate something, and then we shift to Lestrade. Where is Tobias? Why did we not follow his story?The whole book/novelette felt like a mish mosh of trying to be like Doyle and failing. I certainly won't be downloading the other books that this author has available.