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A Sherlock Holmes Retelling That Actually Works!

The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison

July 1, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Katherine Addison might just have made my auto-pre-order list. I loved The Goblin Emperor, and she did it again with her most recent book which is effectively Sherlock Holmes fan-fiction. The cool thing about The Angel of the Crows is how it sets things up to be kind of recognizable but then drops a detail or line that makes it really clear which story you’re in and puts things recently mentioned in new and often interesting perspectives. The world of the story is a Victorian […]

Filed Under: Fanfiction, Fantasy, Mystery Tagged With: angels, katherine addison, London, Sherlock Holmes, The Angel of the Crows, vampires, Victorian, werewolves

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:56 · Genres: Fanfiction, Fantasy, Mystery · Tags: angels, katherine addison, London, Sherlock Holmes, The Angel of the Crows, vampires, Victorian, werewolves ·
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