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krisrid's review
3.0
This is the third book by this author with Irene Adler as the protagonist. I really enjoyed the first two books, but this one lost a bit of momentum for me.
In this installment, Irene is enticed to New York from France by a message from Nellie Bly [who interacted with Adler in one of the earlier books]suggesting that information about Irene's mother [whom Irene has no memory of and has never thought of at all] might be found in New York, and that she go there to look at the information Nellie has because said mother may the target of an assassin.
Irene is ambivalent, but curious, and so heads for a boat with her faithful sidekick Nell in tow, and crosses to NYC.
Irene begins to look into her past and discovers that a number of her past associates from when she was a child vaudeville performer are being murdered and others may be in danger.
Although I like the Irene Adler character, and the inclusion of Sherlock Holmes as a connection to Irene is an interesting story, this book felt a bit too much like a tell-all or self-help book than a murder mystery as the first two books of Irene were. The family drama is not as interesting to me as following Irene as she solves mysteries/crimes.
I particularly was annoyed by Nell in this book, as she was even more up-tight and self-righteous than in the earlier books and I mostly wanted to tell her to shut up and take a pill.
Still the story of the murders and the performers and the shared past between them and Irene was interesting. However, I felt this book was longer than it needed to be to solve the mystery, and the extra pages were extraneous to me - I didn't care about it and think the book would have been better without it.
This was okay, but I am not likely to continue with other books in this series after this one was so underwhelming.
In this installment, Irene is enticed to New York from France by a message from Nellie Bly [who interacted with Adler in one of the earlier books]suggesting that information about Irene's mother [whom Irene has no memory of and has never thought of at all] might be found in New York, and that she go there to look at the information Nellie has because said mother may the target of an assassin.
Irene is ambivalent, but curious, and so heads for a boat with her faithful sidekick Nell in tow, and crosses to NYC.
Irene begins to look into her past and discovers that a number of her past associates from when she was a child vaudeville performer are being murdered and others may be in danger.
Although I like the Irene Adler character, and the inclusion of Sherlock Holmes as a connection to Irene is an interesting story, this book felt a bit too much like a tell-all or self-help book than a murder mystery as the first two books of Irene were. The family drama is not as interesting to me as following Irene as she solves mysteries/crimes.
I particularly was annoyed by Nell in this book, as she was even more up-tight and self-righteous than in the earlier books and I mostly wanted to tell her to shut up and take a pill.
Still the story of the murders and the performers and the shared past between them and Irene was interesting. However, I felt this book was longer than it needed to be to solve the mystery, and the extra pages were extraneous to me - I didn't care about it and think the book would have been better without it.
This was okay, but I am not likely to continue with other books in this series after this one was so underwhelming.
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