Ah, we made it to the final Sherlock Holmes short story collection. I feel very satisfied to have now read them all, and also very sad to be at the end of all these adventures. There really is nothing else quite like Holmes and Watson. This collection is right up the top of my favourites along with The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Another fun collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures! I very much so enjoyed the audiobook production of this, narrated by Stephen Fry, and his foreword introducing it as Holmes' second last bow, seeing as another collection of short stories ended up following this one, was a good bit of cheek. Holmes really is such a well-loved character that it took a few attempts to say goodbye to.
This was thoroughly delightful to read. I knew going into this, that it's a 1960s classic and a well-loved piece of fantasy, so I had reasonably high expectations. I'm very pleased to say that they were met, and the one takeaway I had from this book, was how beautifully written it was.
There is something so exciting about being treated to a full-length Sherlock Holmes novel, particularly when this is the last one of them! Don't get me wrong, the short stories are brilliant, but it's fun to stay with the famous detective for many more pages.
Raise your hand if you're absolutely loving this series! *raises all the hands* Despite vast stretches of this book leading to the comment "will they ever get off this boat?", I found this super enjoyable and I cannot get enough Temeraire in my life.
Another great collection of short stories featuring the famous detective! I think this has been my favourite collection so far. Every single adventure in this collection was so much fun (whereas in some of the other collections there's been the odd one that left me a little cold). And you can't beat the euphoria of the dynamic duo finally reuniting.
This was my second time reading this, and it was every bit as good as the first time, helped by the fact that I could not remember for the life of me what the resolution of the story was. This is probably one of my favourites of the novel-length Sherlock stories, because the whole narrative is just so good and so tight (and has none of the weird half-book-length flashbacks that some of the others have).
This, unfortunately, did not quite live up to my expectations. It was a good time and a fun read, but it was nothing to write home about. The humour was very forced and over the top, which I found distracted me and repeatedly brought me out of the story.
Well, this was absolutely delightful. I was a little uncertain if this was going to live up to expectations based on the first few chapters, but I soon got into the rhythm of the writing and was swept away on what quickly became a wonderful adventure.
This was everything I've come to expect from Jesse Sutanto: funny, pacy and a damn good story.
