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aoosterwyk's review against another edition
3.0
Very good, but perhaps overanalyzed for the reader. I feel like I read the story twice, once to understand the action, and then again, when the main characters told me what really happened.
mary_r_m's review against another edition
3.0
Thank you to Netgalley.com and Open Road Integrated Media for allowing me access to this title.
Interesting read. I loved the way the author creates an experience that would inspire the main character to write the "Sherlock Holmes" novels.
Recommended to fans of Sherlock Holmes.
ariadne_oliver's review against another edition
2.0
The Dark Water is volume three in the series following Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph Bell. This series doesn't lend itself well to just dipping in, so if you want to try it I recommend starting with The Patient's Eyes.
A good mystery with satisfying twists and turns. But the relationship between Doyle and Bell just didn't work for me. It hasn't changed and grown since the first book. There doesn't seem to much affection between them. They don't feel like friends or mentor/mente or even comrades. They sort of grudgingly work next to each other and very rarely with each other which dulled my enjoyment. The Dark Water and the whole series are pretty dark and really could have used that as a counterpoint.
A good mystery with satisfying twists and turns. But the relationship between Doyle and Bell just didn't work for me. It hasn't changed and grown since the first book. There doesn't seem to much affection between them. They don't feel like friends or mentor/mente or even comrades. They sort of grudgingly work next to each other and very rarely with each other which dulled my enjoyment. The Dark Water and the whole series are pretty dark and really could have used that as a counterpoint.
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