Another brilliant entry in the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series. Engaging storytelling and tone-perfect for the historic era and the original Sherlock stories. Fascinating treatment of feminism, inspiring and period-specific, with some intriguing commentary on Christian/Judaic texts and early 20t...
Been adding reviews to the books in the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series on Goodreads and Edelweiss and can as well add them to my blogs. Been a while since I read the books, but most of the books in this series have I read so many times I can the storylines quite well. The continuation of...
"A Monstrous Regiment Of Woman" is well written, skillfully narrated, filled with memorable characters, and spiced with discussions of challenging ideas on religion and on the role of women. In the first book, "The Beekeeper's Apprentice", Mary Russell was an "apprentice" to the Master Craftsman o...
"A Monstrous Regiment Of Woman" is well written, skillfully narrated, filled with memorable characters, and spiced with discussions of challenging ideas on religion and on the role of women.In the first book, "The Beekeeper's Apprentice", Mary Russell was an "apprentice" to the Master Craftsman of d...
I am going to do brief reviews of these two books since I devoured them both over the weekend, and am readying myself for book 4. If I had to chose between them, A Monstrous Regiment of Women edges out A Letter of Mary by a hair, mostly because of Veronica Beaconsfield in the former. I enjoyed bot...
A Monstrous Regiment of Women isn't my favorite of the Holmes/Russell novels, but that's a little like saying dark isn't my favorite type of chocolate. It's still chocolate, and therefore by definition far better than many another thing. Mary Russell has graduated from Oxford, is about to turn twen...
Well, it's a sequel. 2.5 starsPluses:--The descriptions of the time and place. Loved them.--The side characters are good: the farm manager and the maid/butler couple, in particular. (And Watson, as always.)--The discussions of the role of women in religion and the society of the time were illuminati...
What's fresh in my mind after listening to this book for weeks in the car: Excellent narration. Wonderful expository writing. An almost-true depiction of Sherlock Holmes (almost). A scene I disliked so much I FF'd through it; this is the flip-side of wonderful expository writing: a scene so well...
Technically, this is the second Mary Russell book, but it's the one I began the series with. I started with this book because the mystery involving a church run entirely by women really interested me. Plus, I had been told that King does a great job of incorporating women's history into her story-li...
This is absolutely my most favorite series ever! Every book in the series is fantastic-5 star! If you like Sherlock Holmes, you have to read this pastiche. It's the best one I've read yet.
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