Cyndi J. (cyndij) reviewed on 1/22/2019 + 1031 more book reviews

Took me a while to finish this one; I didn't realize it was the second of a series when I started it. There's enough backstory that you'll get the gist of it although you may, as I did, keep thinking you're missing a lot of history. From reading reviews of the first, I gather this series was meant to focus on Mycroft and in this episode Sherlock here is an annoying 19-yr-old, apparently incapable of acting like an adult in routine things like handling money. Although I'm not very familiar with the Sherlockian canon, I can see the beginning of the people they will become, which is fun. I found the drug trade aspect of it quite uncomfortable - I know a tiny bit of the history about the shameful British opium trade - but I don't know if there really was a lot of opium addiction among the British upper class. I really liked Douglas, who is a logical guy dedicated to helping others, and without the compulsion to keep secrets like Mycroft or deduction like Sherlock. Think it might be worth looking up the first in this series.

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