Where All Paths Meet
The Adventures of Holloway Holmes, Book 3
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Narrated by:
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Greg Tremblay
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Gregory Ashe
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Holmeses. Moriartys. Adlers. What’s a Watson to do?
When Jack Moreno receives an anonymous invitation to the Zodiac anniversary gala, he’s inclined to ignore it. His best friend (and more), Holloway Holmes, vanished from his life five months ago, and Jack has no desire to bump into Holloway’s terrifying father, Blackfriar. But included with the invitation is an offer Jack can’t refuse: the promise that he’ll learn what really happened to his mother.
At the gala, an anonymous text sends Jack on a collision course with an amateur thief and, more importantly, with Holmes. Together, they must race to recover what the thief has stolen—information not only about Jack’s mom, but about the Holmes family. Information that could bring down Blackfriar’s empire.
By the time they reach the thief, though, she’s dead, and the stolen information is missing. To recover it, Jack and Holmes will have to learn who killed her. But other people, powerful people, are searching for the information too, and someone has already tried to kill Jack once. He’ll need luck and quick thinking to stay alive. And, of course, he needs Holloway Holmes.
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Great end to a fab series
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Well, what can I say but if this is the end of the series what a great ending. Although not without angst, fear, anger and violence this book shows us an important phase in Jack Moreno's and Holloway Holmes' development into young adults. In fighting their way through all that is thrown at them they get to define themselves.
The supporting characters are well-drawn. The less said about Holoway's father the better but Jack's father is epic. Just what you want of a parent, stern when necessary because they love you and want to protect you. So, he creates boundaries for you but also he is fun and at times truly embarrassing.
I have enjoyed this series but if someone had given me the synopsis of a modern world where the Holmes, Watsons and Moriiatys offspring live today in a symbiotic and antagonistic world I would have said it wouldn't work. However, as always with Gregory Ashe, the world-building and dialogue are excellent so that you feel that you are there on this adventure with Holmes and Moreno. Coupled with this high-level writing we have Greg Boudreaux's narration which perfectly captures the story which happens in a compressed period.
If this is where I leave Moreno and Holloway. I would be happy.
Moreno and Holloway find themselves
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Enjoyable Story
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When Gregory Ashe first announced this series, I wasn't convinced. I've never been a great fan of the Sherlock Holmes stories, though I know the main ones, and I wasn't drawn in by the idea of two characters, still at school and transported to the Utah mountains, somehow acting out being Holmes and Watson.
How wrong I was. It works. In fact, it works so incredibly well, I didn't want this series to end. Both the tropes and the characters are there, transformed, inverted, reimagined for the 21st century. And they grab hold of you as only Ashe's writing can. Jack (and Holloway) go through fire in pursuit of the truth, finally re-emerging towards the end of this final book in scenes that get you in the throat. One of many things I love about Ashe's writing is how he normalises men (and teens) crying. Showing emotion without shame and never, ever thinking it diminishes them.
I hope there might be more. Another arc with a different nemesis? We'll have to wait and see.
Greg Tremblay as narrator is on fire. He can convey so much range without actually really raising his voice. And he gets Holloway Holmes - reserved, rigidly under control until he isn't. Until Jack Moreno gets so completely under his guard, he's lost.
So, so satisfying
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Book 1 review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5561400639
Book 2 review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7966735010
Man oh man is Jack in trouble with his Dad. Jack is keeping way too much from him. I seriously hate this trope of keeping facts from loved ones because they don't want them to be hurt. By not telling the truth, Jack's dad is being exposed to ALL KINDS of danger! Hello? Watch tv much, Jack?
Then there is the relationship between Jack and Holloway. Sigh. They are both troubled teenagers, and H has so many reasons. And whoa, that reveal at the end!! <spoiler>about Holloway and who his real father is</spoiler> This story is a sad example of how the rich and powerful get away with stuff, because there are equally greedy and corrupt people on the other side always ready to do their worst. Ugh.
Thankfully, this ends on a higher note, with some comedy thrown in, haha. Jack and his dad make up, so do Jack and H. And Jack's dad has some strict rules about them being alone. :)
The intenseness of this story is off the scale. I was on the edge of my seat, anxious and waiting to see what would happen. The good guys had to win, but I was so afraid of what it would take.
This is the end, I believe, of the series, but there is a collection of short stories in "The Case-Book of Holloway Holmes." I wish I had read its blurb sooner because I could have listened to the short stories in the proper order, between the main books. Now I need to reorient myself to the relationships as they were <i>before</i> everything has concluded. Oh, well. Can't go back. But, for those who haven't read this series yet, which you must. Be sure to read the Case-Book stories at the same time.
5 stars for narration, 4.5 for the story, all rounded up to 5 stars total. Highly recommend.
Exciting Trilogy!
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