A Study in Silks (The Baskerville Affair, #1)

author: Emma Jane Holloway

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.67

book published: 2013

rating: 2

read at: 2014/04/12

date added: 2014/04/12

shelves: young-adult

review:

'A Study In Silks' is the first in a new young adult trilogy. It involves Evelina Cooper, the niece of Sherlock Holmes. In this London, there is magic and a bit of a steampunk feel.



Evelina Cooper was raised in a circus by her grandmother, but her grandmother thinks Evelina is due for a better life. She is taken in by a friend of hers and is living a life quite different than the one she's known. She finds herself in her first London Season, competing for the hand of wealthy young men. But there is also menace afoot. A series of murders in the house and cryptic clues have her trying to solve the crimes. She is torn between her old life and her new one.



It's a long book. Actually a little too long. There are also so many competing elements and more interesting characters than Evelina that the book tends to drag. I really wanted to like this character, but against her famous uncle, and her friend's brother Tobias, and the menacing Magnus, and the shadowy steam guild, it's just tough for her to rise above it. I'm hoping that changes as the series progresses. I did like it better towards the end of the book, but the first couple hundred pages found me wanting to skip ahead. I'm planning on reading the next book. I really want this to be an interesting character.



I was given a review copy of this book by Random House Publishing Group - Del Rey Spectra and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this book.





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