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October 6, 2020

REVIEW: Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas

JennieB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsmurder mystery / POC author / Series / Sherlock Holmes / Victorian mystery6 Comments

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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 >

July 6, 2020

REVIEW: The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison

JanineB Reviews / Book Reviews1880s / Angel / fanfic / Fantasy / friendship / Late Victorian / London / murder mystery / queer characters / Shapeshifter / Sherlock Holmes24 Comments

Dear Katherine Addison, Your steampunk fantasy novel, The Goblin Emperor, was my second favorite book of 2014 (my favorite being Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel). The Goblin Emperor held a tinge of melancholy, but also of hopefulness, and the balance of the two made the reading experience an ... more >

April 16, 2018

REVIEW: The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard

SiriusA Review Category / A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsPOC / POC author / SFF / Sherlock Holmes / short story/novellette8 Comments

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Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled human scholars and powerful families, and held together by living mindships who carry people and freight between the stars. In this fluid society, human and mindship avatars mingle in corridors and in function rooms, ... more >

January 8, 2018

Monday News: PBS-NYT Book Club, Fitbit tattoo, adapting Holmes, and post-Harvey book drive

JanetPublishing Newsbig data / book drive / Book-club / fitness apps / Sherlock Holmes4 Comments

Introducing the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, ‘Now Read This’ – I greeted this news with wan curiosity, although that’s probably unfair. It’s just that I’ve been so disappointed by the undoing of the NYTBR that I don’t know what to make of a Facebook-grounded book club. If any ... more >

November 9, 2017

REVIEW: A Conspiracy in Belgravia by Sherry Thomas

JennieB+ 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 >

November 17, 2016

REVIEW: A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

JennieB 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 >

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