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A Vörös Pióca (2010)

by Andrew Lane(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Lybrum

series

Young Sherlock Holmes

review 1: Fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes knows that Amyus Crowe, his mysterious American tutor, has some dark secrets. But he didn’t expect to find John Wilkes Booth, the notorious assassin, apparently alive and well in England—and Crowe somehow mixed up in it. When no one will tell you the truth, sometimes you have to risk all to discover it for yourself. And so begins an adventure that will take Sherlock across the Atlantic, to the center of a deadly web—where a friend is in peril and a defeated army threatens to rise again.Andrew Lane’s exciting second case for the teenage Sherlock leads the young detective to America, straight into the heart of a shocking conspiracy.
review 2: While Death Cloud was at least an enjoyable mystery, I found that I simply could... more not get into Red Leech. It simply did not read like a Sherlock Holmes story. There was no mystery this time round and so the story was a straight thriller in the vein of a James Bond adventure. The action in the story - which included a shoot out on top of a moving steam train - felt fair to cartoonish and not at all in keeping with the source material. Holmes also felt even more out of character in this book. I appreciate that the purpose of the series is to show how Holmes came to be the consulting detective of Doyle's work, however there is no spark of brilliance in his character and he shows far too much emotional attachment to his friends (particularly Virginia who he has a very obvious crush on).While some of the historical facts were somewhat interesting, they bogged down the story by creating large chunks of educational text which broke up the flow of the text. I also noticed some false truths, such as stating that komodo dragons swallow their prey whole, which made me question the validity of any of the facts that Holmes learns on his journey.All in all, I was not captivated by this one. I'm going to read the next because I already own a copy and really hope that the series improves. less

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