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Death By Silver (2013)

by Melissa Scott(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1590210557 (ISBN13: 9781590210550)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Lethe Press

series

Julian Lynes and Ned Mathey

review 1: The comparison of this book to Sherlock Holmes was what inspired me to read it (well, that, and my fondness for Lethe), though I was quickly pleased that the similarity is actually fairly superficial and this story goes far beyond that. Though it is still a tale of a great partnership (that, yes, is romantic as well) as well as a gripping mystery. The two main characters especially are very well drawn and fully realized, with a nice gradual reveal of some childhood incidents that helped shaped them. And the backdrop of the world, a sort of gaslight urban fantasy, is an interesting one. I would really look forward to move stories in this world.
review 2: This book was fine, I guess, but not really that special. I was looking for a page-turner and it isn't that.... more I suppose my main complaint is that the description is rather more appealing than the book itself. The "sodomitical demimonde" is much less luridly described than one might expect. I really want my romance either more full of yearning or more explicit, and this is neither. The mystery side is also somewhat bloodless. That said, the characters are pleasantly appealing and there are some good bits in the flashback scenes. And the writing is competent enough. Not bad but not great. less

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