B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsmurder mystery / POC author / Series / Sherlock Holmes / Victorian mystery6 Comments
Disclosure from DA reviewer Janine: Author Sherry Thomas is my friend and critique partner. Jennie, who wrote the review, has no personal relationship with her, however.-Janine Blurb time!: Charlotte Holmes, Lady Sherlock, investigates a puzzling new murder case that implicates Scotland Yard inspector Robert Treadles in the USA Today bestselling ... more >
B- Reviews / Book ReviewsHistorical fiction / historical mystery / Lady Sherlock series / POC author7 Comments
Disclosure: Sherry Thomas is my friend and critique partner and I critiqued this manuscript. — Janine Dear Ms. Thomas: In preparation for this review I reread my reviews of the previous three books in the series – I gave book one a B- and books two and three each a ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews5th Century / China / fairytale / Fantasy / martial arts / Mulan / POC / POC author / strong heroine / YA historical12 Comments
Dear Ms. Thomas: I’m going to be lazy and steal the blurb: A Warrior in Disguise All her life, Mulan has trained for one purpose: to win the duel that every generation in her family must fight. If she prevails, she can reunite a pair of priceless heirloom swords separated ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book ReviewsEnglish historical mystery / Lady Sherlock series / POC author / Victorian mystery12 Comments
PLEASE NOTE: This review contains spoilers for previous books in the series. Dear Ms. Thomas: I read and enjoyed the first two books in the Lady Sherlock series, A Study in Scarlet Women and A Conspiracy in Belgravia, even though I didn’t always understand what was going on with the ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviewsmystery / POC author / Series / Sherlock Holmes10 Comments
Dear Sherry Thomas: I read and reviewed the first book in your “Lady Sherlock” series, A Study in Scarlet Women, last year, and gave it a B-. In spite of the middling grade, I was definitely interested in reading this, the second book in the series. The prologue opens with Inspector ... more >
B Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book Reviewsheroine in disguise / murder mystery / POC author / Sherlock Holmes16 Comments
Dear Ms. Thomas: I know very little about Sherlock Holmes – I know of the pipe and the deerstalker cap, I’ve heard the phrase, “Elementary, my dear Watson”, and I know that Sherlock was an influential archtype in the development of the modern detective in fiction. I *think* I read ... more >