This is book two in the Sins of the City series, set in Victorian England and it carries the tale forward that left the reader hanging at the end of the first book. I won’t go into too much detail on that one here, as you can read my review on that one if you’re interested. Nathanial Roy is a former lawyer, now crusading journalist who is helping his friend Clem with some legal battles. In the course of his work, he meets Justin Lazarus, […]
Not So Much About the Daughter, but Still Good
It has taken me a while to figure out how I wanted to review this book. I actually read a whole other book while trying to figure out how I really felt about it. The main thing that my deliberations came down to was that it is a very good book… It just wasn’t really the book I was looking for when I started it. Based on the title and they synopsis blurb I was under the impression this was a story where the titular […]
Murder, British History, and Unreliable Narrators
I’m a pretty big fan of historical fiction, and I love a good mystery, so when I get my hands on a historical mystery, well watch out. And this one also employs one of my favorite techniques, the unreliable narrator. Wait, what’s that you say, multiple unreliable narrators? Stop it, you’re killing me! The main action of An Instance of the Fingerpost takes place in 1660s Oxford, after the Restoration of Charles II to the throne. I say “main action,” because the story is told […]
“The Good Lord went to ridiculous lengths to make sure that one of the finest minds in existence was housed in a body least likely to be suspected of it.”
This book. Man, this book is exactly what I needed this past insanely crappy week. It’s a 4.5 star book, but I needed it so much I can’t give it anything less than a 5 right now. This is the first in a trilogy about Charlotte Holmes, a self-styled private investigator in Victorian London. It is fabulous. I adore the original Sherlock Holmes stories. They helped get me through a summer of studying for the Bar Exam. I was so obsessed that during my lunch […]