Lock & Mori
In modern-day London, two brilliant high school students—one Sherlock Holmes and a Miss James “Mori” Moriarty—meet. A murder will bring them together. The truth very well might drive them apart.Before they were mortal enemies, they were much more…FACT: Someone has...
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In modern-day London, two brilliant high school students—one Sherlock Holmes and a Miss James “Mori” Moriarty—meet. A murder will bring them together. The truth very well might drive them apart.Before they were mortal enemies, they were much more…FACT: Someone has been murdered in London’s Regent’s Park.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781481423038 (1481423037)
ASIN: 1481423037
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Series: Lock & Mori
This was charming and sweet, despite the bitterness in Mori's life: James Morality is reimagined as not only a teen girl, a rival of Sherlock Holmes as far as intellect goes, but also as a heroine in her own right. This means something right off the bat to Sherlock Holmes purists: this book will n...
This book was very disappointing. I had expected some complex mystery since it was a Sherlock Holmes retelling and I got the opposite of that. I guessed who the murderer was withing the first 70 pages. The author made it way to obvious and I just wish there was more mystery to it. Also the relat...
There were some good bits to this. The atmosphere was just right for the first 50 pages, the writing style was pretty decent, and the general idea behind the story, as Sherlock and Moriarty, is clever. Unfortunately, I have more bad things to say than good. What this mostly suffered from was, well...
TW: VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN AND WOMEN, EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL ABUSE, ALCOHOLISM I think many people went into this book expecting more of BBC's Sherlock or the original Arthur Conan Doyle's books, and they weren't happy with the result. Sherlock is indeed like BBC's Sherlock but, thankfully, we...
***This review has also been posted on The Social Potato Lock and Mori did not work out for me and this makes me a sad panda. I enjoy Sherlock retellings so I was excited to read this book but when I dove in, I was surprised by how meh I felt about it. If you want awesome Sherlock bits, this book is...
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