Synopsis:
Meet Enola Holmes, teenage girl turned detective and the younger sister to Sherlock Holmes.
When Enola Holmes, sister to the detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared, she quickly embarks on a journey to London in search of her. But nothing can prepare her for what awaits. Because when she arrives, she finds herself involved in the kidnapping of a young marquess, fleeing murderous villains, and trying to elude her shrewd older brothers–all while attempting to piece together clues to her mother’s strange disappearance. Amid all the mayhem, will Enola be able to decode the necessary clues and find her mother?
Review:
This is slightly blasphemous, and I don’t say this often, but I prefer the film. It has much better pacing and the story is far more exciting. It’s also pretty much completely different so even if you’ve watched the film before reading the book (like me) you don’t know what’s going to happen. I understand why it was so different, some elements of this book wouldn’t work as well in a film.
The narration tone isn’t quite sitting well with me just yet but I like to think this is setting up the rest of the series. They are pretty short books at the end of the day, so you can’t expect too much to happen just yet.
Also based on the title, I thought the missing marquess story was going to be much more prominent, yes you do meet Tweksbury but there’s no conclusion to his case. Is this similar to what happens in the film or is this book actually the conclusion? If yes, it was a little underwhelming.
It sounds like I didn’t enjoy this book, which isn’t true at all – I wouldn’t have finished it otherwise. I really love the idea of Sherlock Holmes’ little sister also being a detective, I’m interested to see where this series will go.
I’ll continue the series at some point as I already own the next two books, but I really am hoping the cheeky, fast paced nature from the films becomes present in the books.
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