Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Two tales of Charlotte

A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro

Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas

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I finished reading these two books recently, and since they shared a common named protagonist, it seemed like a no brainer to review them together.  Both of these feature Charlotte Holmes, solver of mysteries, but in very different settings. Book:  A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro “The two of us, we’re the best kind of disaster. Apples and oranges. Well, more like apples and machetes.”  There are many iterations and retelling of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson out there these days.  This one is […]

Neither Character Is As Awful As I Thought They Were In the Last Book

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Ahhh what glowing praise I’ve bestowed upon the characters in my title. hahaha. I won’t be able to talk much about the plot of this book unless I was willing to talk about some major plot points from the second book because you might want to read that book.  I personally never want to read that book ever again as it destroyed two characters that I loved in the first book, A Study in Charlotte.  I disliked The Last of August so very much that I wasn’t […]

Watson and Holmes Sitting in a Tree? Maybe…Maybe not.

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Let me start by saying that A Study in Charlotte was one of my favorite books that I read last year (or the year before…whenever I read it).  The conceit is that Sherlock Holmes and John Watson were real people and their descendants share the qualities of their famous relatives as they are molded and shaped into “who they’re supposed to be”.  A Study in Charlotte had us meeting Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes at boarding school and working through their first case together.  I […]

“The Good Lord went to ridiculous lengths to make sure that one of the finest minds in existence was housed in a body least likely to be suspected of it.”

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This book.  Man, this book is exactly what I needed this past insanely crappy week.  It’s a 4.5 star book, but I needed it so much I can’t give it anything less than a 5 right now.  This is the first in a trilogy about Charlotte Holmes, a self-styled private investigator in Victorian London.  It is fabulous.  I adore the original Sherlock Holmes stories.  They helped get me through a summer of studying for the Bar Exam.  I was so obsessed that during my lunch […]



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