Review: Move Aside Sherlock! Here Comes Kirin!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 8, 2014
Old Holmes had been on top for too long. Finally, the legendary detective gets some competition, and the competition is every bit as legendary!I am an old fashioned bookworm – while I've read many classics, I've no idea of the newfangled stuff such as “steampunk”, “cyberpunk” etc., which some of the reviewers here have alluded to. But I'll say this – if you're looking for a great detective yarn, with a really exciting and an incredibly smart young protagonist, you just have to read this book!While reading this book, I kept imagining the duo of detective Kirin and his delightful sidekick Jake, to be the younger, funkier versions of Sherlock Holmes and Dr.Watson. What Holmes and Watson are to the seniors, Kirin and Jake are to the Young Adult crowd, which is perhaps the biggest demographic for fiction these days.Kaye Wagner is obviously very talented, and has constructed the book beautifully into 3 independent stories, or “cases”, with a common thread holding them together. All three stories are exciting, with edge-of-the-seat action, and it was a great fun trying to solve the mysteries along with Kirin!The city of Teigin, a living, breathing, bustling city, is an important character in its own right, and could easily be Shanghai or Tokyo in a post-apocalyptic setting.I really enjoyed reading this book, and I'm happy that this is just the first of Kirin's adventures. I eagerly look forward to the next!