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Book review
Aug. 20th, 2008 07:53 pmI wonder if I ought to have a Holmes tag after all of this posting XD
I finished reading My Dearest Holmes, by Rohase Piercy, after two days. I had to absolutely rip myself painfully away from it whenever my breaks were over at work.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caitirin read this a few years ago, so you may have heard of it from her, but if not, it's a short novel of two "lost" manuscripts written by Watson and sealed to be opened 100 years after they were written. It's about Holmes and Watson's relationship, supposedly the truth about it, and it's beautiful and heartrending.
I really, really loved most of it. It was so sad, since it focused on Watson being besotted and Holmes being, um, Holmes, and on Holmes' faked death. But it did end happily. It was written very much in the Conan Doyle style, and it even used lines from the canon stories sneakily slipped in occasionally. It didn't deviate terribly far from how I think their characters are, and the raciest it gets is one kiss. It's not even a detailed kiss. I was thankful for this :) It's all extremely restrained, obviously, considering how the two of them (Holmes especially) are.
The only thing I didn't like about it was the angle that Watson's been gadding about the gay circles in London and practically everybody he runs into is like "Oh, Dr. WATSON" *eyebrow waggle* In some parts it seemed like he'd been absolutely secretive, and it others it seemed like everybody knew he liked men and all of his and Holmes' problems, the danger they were in at various points, was a result of his supposed "indiscretions". In the context of the time, it was extremely realistic, I just didn't feel like it was them. I'm more in the "extremely close but not sexually attracted to one another" camp with these two.
But the book as a whole was really wonderful, and I enjoyed it immensely. I think it'll be a favorite of mine. I sure am lucky Caitirin bought it :)
I finished reading My Dearest Holmes, by Rohase Piercy, after two days. I had to absolutely rip myself painfully away from it whenever my breaks were over at work.
caitirin read this a few years ago, so you may have heard of it from her, but if not, it's a short novel of two "lost" manuscripts written by Watson and sealed to be opened 100 years after they were written. It's about Holmes and Watson's relationship, supposedly the truth about it, and it's beautiful and heartrending.I really, really loved most of it. It was so sad, since it focused on Watson being besotted and Holmes being, um, Holmes, and on Holmes' faked death. But it did end happily. It was written very much in the Conan Doyle style, and it even used lines from the canon stories sneakily slipped in occasionally. It didn't deviate terribly far from how I think their characters are, and the raciest it gets is one kiss. It's not even a detailed kiss. I was thankful for this :) It's all extremely restrained, obviously, considering how the two of them (Holmes especially) are.
The only thing I didn't like about it was the angle that Watson's been gadding about the gay circles in London and practically everybody he runs into is like "Oh, Dr. WATSON" *eyebrow waggle* In some parts it seemed like he'd been absolutely secretive, and it others it seemed like everybody knew he liked men and all of his and Holmes' problems, the danger they were in at various points, was a result of his supposed "indiscretions". In the context of the time, it was extremely realistic, I just didn't feel like it was them. I'm more in the "extremely close but not sexually attracted to one another" camp with these two.
But the book as a whole was really wonderful, and I enjoyed it immensely. I think it'll be a favorite of mine. I sure am lucky Caitirin bought it :)
