![]() ![]() ![]() There is promise and good ideas in this book, but it's ultimately not as cool as the Holmes/Cthulhu showdown you're imagining. In general, she does a better job of channeling Lovecraft than Conan Doyle. Her nameless horrors and sinister constructs are vivid and properly unnerving. ![]() Lois Gresh really has a way of describing the indescribable. The book is at its best with the Lovecraftian bits. Holmes and Watson spend way too much time denying what they see happening, and I found myself wishing they'd just get on with it already. This book just seems a little long for what it is. It's actually rather dreary, which is not the sort of reaction you want to have to Book 1 of 3. If the two of them faced off literally on page one, there wouldn't be much of a novel, let alone a trilogy (Book 2: 101 More Ways in Which Sherlock's Soul is Mangled in Agonizing Tortures.) Pretty much this entire book exists to bring Holmes around to the point of considering that the supernatural entities of the Cthulhu mythos may just possibly exist. This is the first book of a projected trilogy, so don't start it expecting a nice, tidy resolution.įirst of all, Cthulhu-though referred to-does not actually appear in this book. You know things are bad when a certain someone appeals to Holmes for help. Horribly mutilated bodies, stacks of bones arranged in bizarre figures, buildings and furniture constructed with unnatural angles and carved with strange symbols. ![]() A series of bizarre deaths draws Holmes and Watson into the case of a lifetime. ![]()
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