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Trưởng Thành (2013)

by Shane Peacock(Favorite Author)

4.26 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Kim Đồng

series

The Boy Sherlock Holmes

review 1: "Becoming Holmes" by Shane Peacock is a good book to recommend to middle school students who likes Sherlock Holmes because this book is a detective story about Sherlock Holmes and his enemies. This book has easy vocabulary, suspense and a very mysterious story. This book was very interesting and it was hard for me to stop reading because I was interested in how Holmes solved mysteries and how his enemies reacted. This book talks about the life of Sherlock Holmes and his combats between his enemies Malefactor, and his two henchmen, Grimsby and Crew. I'm 100% sure that you guys would enjoy this book.
review 2: This book is the perfect ending to a truly fantastic series, making the reader put it down thinking, "Yes, that's exactly how it must have happened. Surely... more, If Doyle had given us any details at all about Holmes' pre-Baker Street life, he would have written exactly this." Peacock really nails it, coming up with amazingly believable circumstances & occurrences to explain Holmes' famously unusual personality. Here's one thing I feel should be mentioned, though: my library shelves this book as "juvenile fiction," & I found myself becoming increasingly uncomfortable with that designation as the series went on. Peacock does a really great job of catching the same feel as the original adventures, complete with disturbing personalities, graphically violent occurrences, & of course the sometimes deeply grim & unsettling atmosphere of the London of the time, complete with plenty of human misery & suffering. It's pitch-perfect & makes for an even more absorbing read, if you know what you are expecting & are equipped to handle it. Yes, the books begin with Holmes as a boy, & yes, the length is one most middle-grade readers can easily tackle, but the material could be too much for some personalities. I know that I myself would have been perfectly capable of reading them at the age of nine or ten, but they'd have given me weeks of nightmares. There are some equally well-done children's series takes on the Holmes universe that would be a much better fit for some kids. That said, if you're able to find the right kids to introduce to this series, it could create the start of a lifelong love for the most famous private consulting detective in literary history - & established adult fans will devour it as voraciously as the original adventures. less

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