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Chargement... Beekeeping for Beginners (2011)par Laurie R. King
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A delightful short story. ( ) This was a fun short story/ novella to read. While published 17 years after The Beekeeper's Apprentice, the first book in the Mary Russell series, this story is best read as a companion piece to the first book. Told predominantly from the point of view of Holmes, the story starts off at the same place [The Beekeeper's Apprentice] does, with Russell and Holmes' chance encounter in the Sussex countryside. King keenly captures Holmes' personality and mindset while providing Holmes with a new lease on life as he works behind the scenes to protect Russell. Overall, a very quick and satisfying read for this Holmes fan. A short story that takes place within the time frame of The Beekeeper's Apprentice, here we get a detailed look at the conflict between Mary and her Aunt during the time her aunt was her guardian. I'm left feeling vaguely "meh" in part because Ms. King takes a few liberties with her own story line and because of the narration. Mary makes if very clear in The Beekeeper's Apprentice that she intends to mention her aunt as little as possible so the author certainly has quite a bit of leeway to make this plot work, but still, Mary never mentions a trip to London to see her solicitors after meeting Holmes and quite plainly tells Holmes in the first book that all the paperwork is settled very soon after meeting him. (That's all I'm going to say because I don't want to go spoilery.) So I guess while the author still has room to create this story, she had to screw with the timeline a bit and it left me feeling discombobulated - I had to go back and re-read the pertinent sections of book 1. Also, the narration was good - very good. But Robert Ian Mackenzie's voice is inherently friendly - he kept reminding me of a lovely English grandfather. Really pleasant and warm, but Holmes isn't any of those things and trying to listen to cold logic and deductive reasoning from someone who sounds like grandpa wasn't working for me. For narration, Jenny Sterling has nailed Holmes' cold, detached voice so thoroughly I'm not sure I could listen to anyone else at this point, Except Benedict Cuberbatch - can you imagine him narrating a Holmes story? - I think I'd swoon... aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieMary Russell: Chronological Order (April-May 1915) Est contenu dans
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HTML:BONUS: This eBook includes an excerpt from Laurie R. King's Pirate King. In this crackling short story, New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King reveals an unforgettable new twist in the adventure that led supersleuth Sherlock Holmes to discover his first (and finest) apprentice, Mary Russell. Sherlock Holmes is fending off a particularly dark mood as he roams the Sussex Downs, in search of wild bees. The Great War may be raging across the Channel, but on the Downs, the great detective nears terminal melancholiaâ??only to be saved by an encounter with headstrong, yellow-haired young Mary Russell, who soon becomes the Masterâ??s apprentice not only in beekeeping but in detection. Holmes instantly spots her remarkable ability, but his sharp eyes also see troubling problems. Why is this wealthy orphan who lives with her aunt so shabbily dressed? Why is she so prone to illness and accident? Is she herself the center of a mystery? These are questions that the great detective must answer quickly lest his protégée, and his own new lease on life, meet a sudden, tragic end. The tale of their meeting has been told from Russellâ??s point of view, but even those who have never met the famed Russell-Holmes pair will read this tale with delightâ??and, as its climax builds, with breath Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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