When reading the original Sherlock Holmes stories, so much of the fun is that Holmes seems untouchable. I wanted her to be complicated and flawed and to have a good reason, at least in her own head, as to why she was doing what she was doing. As much as she’s been trained to be a detective, she’s making up her own playbook as she goes along. He uses a lot of disguises, but especially in the second book, Charlotte is doing a lot of pretending to be other people, constantly, in order to get the information or the results that she needs. In a lot of ways, Charlotte is a detective, but she actually draws more in her methods from spy fiction than the original Sherlock Holmes ever did. She and Jamie are both still learning what they want to be. But Charlotte is fallible as a detective. Was it an accident? Or was it on purpose? I’m still not sure.In a lot of incarnations of Holmes, he doesn’t often get anything wrong. It leaves me begging the question of Milo’s intentions.
And it’s not even that I liked his character that much, it was just such a stupid way to die. It was 2 pages from the end and he was mistaken for his brother Hadrian when Milo (who was away in Thailand tracking another Moriarty brother) shot him!! Like I still can’t get over how stupid that was! He was literally extending an olive branch to the Holmes’ about putting their families’ pasts behind to establish a new peace and possible work relationship when he got shot! It was ridiculous! This death is going to take me awhile to get over I think. But this made it so much worse when he dies! I felt ripped off about that.
He got major points with me when he offered his life though. I feel bad for not believing in him sooner but at the same time, he had just committed to kidnapping Watson so how was I supposed to know? He kept me guessing which I guess is the point and considering his family, should have been expected. I wasn’t sure if he could be trusted and I guess I still didn’t know until he offered to kill himself to save Holmes and Watson from his brother Hadrian. Sometimes he seemed distant and other times he was at the center of the plot. So I knew this book was going to have August Moriarty in it and as I read it, I wasn’t sure about his character.
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