21 Jan 2019

cimorene: closeup of Jeremy Brett as Holmes raising his eyebrows from behind a cup of steaming tea (eyebrows)
LOL, I just posted the other day about why I didn't like Gladstone's Craft sequence #2, Two Serpents Rise, nearly as much as #1, Three Parts Dead (essentially: gender, subsection: tropes) and also gave an honorable mention to my sense, from somewhere around the midway point, that the rest of the book was inevitable (typical for noir, which both books play with, but 2SR follows more closely). And then three other people commented agreeing.

I went through the 'about' page on Google Books just now on my way to buy #3 and the first thing my eye fell on was a four-star review that starts off by saying how much better it is than the first one (huh?) and the second was another four-star review saying the end "twist" (so... someone was still surprised I guess!) was the best and elevated the rest.

Profile

cimorene: cartoony drawing of a woman's head in profile giving dubious side-eye (Default)
Cimorene

July 2025

S M T W T F S
   123 45
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

  • Style: Practically Dracula for Practicalitesque - Practicality (with tweaks) by [personal profile] cimorene
  • Resources: Dracula Theme

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated 9 Jul 2025 03:11 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios