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Title: Couldn't Even Finish It
Review: I've read Laurie R. King's work before, but this is the first "Mary Russell" novel that I've read, or tried to read, and it will be the last. It's premise of Sherlock Holmes marrying this boring shrew of a woman was unbelievable to me. Also, he seemed to have become dumber in his old age, asking questions that would have been "elementary" to the old Holmes. The plot, a phantom coach and a ghostly hound on the moor, is poorly developed and while supposedly a sequel to "The Hound of Baskervilles" isn't nearly as interesting as it could be. The book was incredibly slow to start, and I was so bored I couldn't read it for more than five minutes when I can usually sit and read for hours. There's hardly any mystery, no adventure, no sense of thrill, no brilliant deductions by Russell or Holmes, nothing which would mark a Sherlock Holmes mystery. Apologies to Ms. King, but she is no Doyle, and should stick to her non-Mary Russell novels.
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