Review: Not pulling me in.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 10, 2013
I'm afraid that after a few chapters I'm bailing out. There's just nothing in this story that is pulling me in, and being a Sherlock Holmes fan I'd really hoped there would be.Lillian is just off to me. She's 24, and orphan, and supposed to be beautiful and smart and wants to solve crimes like Sherlock Holmes. Problem is, there's no real feeling that she's educated herself enough to solve crimes. There's no feeling that she's put a lot of work into studying things most people wouldn't. Yes, she says she's smart, as do her friends, but there's no real feeling that she's at all really qualified to actually do so. Add to that she hints at substance abuse, (such as Holmes had) and identifies someone else as an abuser but even in her own mind discounts that she's addicted herself. Worse yet she has trouble with the fact that "Uncle Sherlock" is really a fictional character. She knows that he doesn't really exist, even has a letter she carries around from AC Doyle that states as such, but she continuously thinks of him as her real Uncle and imagines dialog with him. This is very off to me. That, and how her "Uncle Sherlock" tells her how beautiful and smart she is. Really?Add that to the fact that in 17 years since her parents died she's refused to ask abut them. She doesn't know if she has grandparents or even siblings, and she's not asking! That doesn't seem realistic, nor the type of person who is obsessed with the truth. All we know is that she has a lot of money, those in charge of the trust want her to marry and she refuses to have anything to do with that idea, and she wants to solve crimes.Then add in the supernatural, and a Nemesis with that has no problem killing people, which the author points her at him as her future "Love".... Well, it's all odd and doesn't seem to fit together very well, and not something I'm rooting to happen between them. A shame, but I just can't get any further with it.