amazing!

Simultaneously the best sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft novel I've ever read! I know this is a heretical thing to say, but it's true!

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Excellent

Loved it. Very thrilling and dramatic. I was so engrossed in it. Performed well.

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chills and thrills

loved it. brandy, snuggie, candles and a speaker. atmospheric with a touch of comfort and madness.

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Shile of pite

Best avoided. Unnecessarily long and just crap. Full of contradictions and will give you a headache.

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Poor writing and an insult to Sherlock Holmes

Don’t make the mistake into thinking this is by James Lovegrove as I did. It is tedious, odious and revels in unnecessary descriptions of depraved violence. The dialogue is monotonous and repetitive . There is nothing to recommend this book or author. I eventually gave up before finishing but no matter as the story had no substance anyway

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Way too graphic discriptions

Discriptions of killings way too graphic and utterly dicusting and unessasery made me sick and spoilt sherlock holmes for me.Thia would have been a good storey except for that.

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rubbish

just ridiculous and nothing like a Holmes story don't waste your time waste of time

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very poor representation

I did not enjoy this book, it is too dark and depicts a poor representation of sherlock holmes. I stopped listening after a couple of hours. I would not recommend this to anyone.

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Dreadful.

There’s so much about this book to dislike. It drags on forever, bears little to no resemblance to a Holmes mystery and on top of that yet again we have DK’s narration, complete with dodgy accents and basic mispronunciations. How the producer let him get away with it is beyond me.

The author is American - No problem there - But having Sherlock use words like “gotten” is amateurish.

It seems like anyone can knock out a Holmes book these days but this by far one of the most egregious liberties I’ve experienced.

The whole thing is far too long, cursed with clumsy dialogue and full of repetitive phrases that are unnecessary. At times I found myself burying my face in my hands laughing at the ridiculous characters and entire plot (if you could call it that) - It really is woeful.

Now and again there are some nice bits of descriptive writing but they’re few and far between, and some of the descriptions of gore are gratuitous, especially that of a dead baby. The “adult” bits would surely win an award for the most cringeworthy and awkward so it’s a good job there’s not much of it.

All in all, this one’s a real stinker. I was half way through when I decided to push on through to the end, lest I waste the time I’d already spent on it, but I’d have been better to cut my losses and delete it after about 90 minutes in.

Avoid this one - There are plenty other Holmes themed books out there worth your time.

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Stop! Read James Lovegrove instead.

This is so bad I can’t finish it. And I hate leaving books unfinished!

I read the James Lovegrove Cthulhu Casebooks series and loved it, so I thought I’d give this a try. I had a weird deja vu moment since the audiobooks have the same narrator (wonder if he found it confusing too...). But this is dry. If you imagine the Lovegrove books as nice squidgy chocolate chip cookies with a hint of sinister, this is one of those weird woodchip crackerbreads from Slimming World, with a hint of extra boring.

The Holmes bit isn’t Holmesish, the Cthulhu bit isn’t Cthulhuish, and the story isn’t storyish.

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