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Too much irrelevant detail

Revisado: 11-18-24

I’m looking for a solution, not a thesis.
She overcompensated for her lack of formal nutrition training by over-explaining things that don’t matter to the reader being able to execute a plan.
If she’d spent as much time on describing the diet as she did in explaining the details of our digestive systems I might have been able to derive some benefit.

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Decent story wrapped around a weak female character

Revisado: 04-08-22

… and riddled with virtue signaling from the author.
Drinking game suggestion: take a drink every time Emily gets into her “Leaf” instead of “her car”.
Who besides Emily’s dad is still watching CNN except for giggles?
How many times can you want to smack a character and still be sympathetic?
Don’t want to talk to the press? Walk away.
Don’t want your mother-in-law pirating your wedding? Sprout a backbone and take charge.
By the end of the book I was ambivalent about the choking scene and the only thing keeping me engaged was resolving her mother’s death.
… and the book ended.

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Delightful new (to me) series

Revisado: 10-06-21

I'm ashamed that I was hesitant to buy this first book in this series because I let myself be swayed by the rabid caterwallings of the faux literati. I swear there are some really petty souls in this world that managed to find something to niggle about in this book.
Acceptably cryptic. Pleasantly paced romantic development. Engaging dialog. A heroine that is appreciated for her skills and valued instead of having to ENDLESSLY fight against being dismissed (get over it already, we get it, some men are dumb).
Loved this first selection and will probably wind up working my way through the entire series.
Take that, haters.

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Enjoyable read

Revisado: 04-17-21

I confess to being tempted to shout at my player when the women allow themselves to be treated like indentured servants by the lady of the town.

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Nice surprise

Revisado: 04-01-21

A bit of an Eeyore beginning... but a nice tale well told and time well spent. A nice job of developing an attachment to the characters which which made me care about the outcome.

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A Mixed Bag

Revisado: 12-06-20

The stories ranged from "Gee I wish this author would do a series!" to "Grab the pitchforks and torches boys, we got work to do...".
Apparently "Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon" means "somewhere in the story the words 'Sherlock Holmes' appear". A couple of these SO abused the premise that they reached the level of "irksome"... However a couple of them were so stylistically and thematically divergent from what any reasonable human being would characterize as 'the Sherlock Holmes Canon" that they attained the lofty heights of "loathsome".
However, I guess that is to be expected from a collection edited by Laurie R. King, considering how (in my opinion) she has (very profitably) mangled the Holmes canon. There is apparently a very lucrative market for canon's that have been tossed under a train and crushed beyond recognition.

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Mocking people of faith not a good look

Revisado: 11-05-20

I was enjoying the story and performance but right on cue they made the caller with faith a lunatic.
Tired trope.
Unnecessarily insulting trope.
Pass.

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Too much humpy-humpy; not enough hunty-hunts

Revisado: 11-05-20

I’m sorry, I tried, but the tedious smut just got too boring to try to wait for the story to reassert itself.
Pity...
The premise had promise and the characters had real possibilities.

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Love the series ... but...

Revisado: 10-15-20

It is my sincerest hope that the author will resist the urge to become ever more self-indulgent in virtue signaling as the series progresses.
I come to my Audible haven to ESCAPE revisionist history and lunatic social justice warriors. I’ve opted out of most movies and television because they have just become unwatchable with their preening self-righteousness and I’d hate to have to do the same with my favorite novel series as well.
Tell a good story.
Entertain.
Leave the sermons for Sunday.

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Truly Astounding Talent

Revisado: 10-04-20

I've blown through all four of the first four volumes of this series in a couple of weeks and have pre-ordered volume 5.
Sherry Thomas has done THE best job of emulating ACD's style I've ever read while making the story her own.
The way she has distributed the skillset that made Holmes Holmes across a fascinating universe of characters and then drawn me in to passionately CARE about them is truly humbling to a wish-I'd-been writer.
The complexity of the plot-lines and the number of moving parts that she fits together into a compelling tale and a satisfying resolution at the end amazes me.
THIS is the kind of writer that makes wading through all of the others worth it.
I plan on enjoying the whole series many more times, Lord willing.
Thank you Ms Thomas.

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