In The Last of August, Charlotte and Jamie are at her family home in London. Unfortunately, the next one was kind of disappointing. (2 stars) The Last of August (Charlotte Holmes, #2) by Brittany Cavallaro When I finished this one, I was very eager to pick the next one up. Jamie develops a pretty intense crush on Charlotte, but he also cares about her like a true friend. Their banter is fun, even when the stakes are high. And Mario Kart.”Ĭharlotte and Jamie team up to solve a murder at their prep school - a murder that seems torn directly from a Sherlock Holmes novel. “We weren’t Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. His massive crush on her and total inability to get her to listen to him causes complications. Jamie, despite not growing up with Charlotte, slides easily into her role as number two - well, he’s good at following her around and making excuses for her anyway. Charlotte has many of the same characteristics as Sherlock Holmes, despite being a 17 year old girl in Connecticut - volatile, snarky, drug-addicted and smart as hell. So this is a Sherlock Holmes retelling set in modern times, where our main character (Charlotte) is a descendant of Sherlock, and is thrown together at prep school with a descendant of Watson (Jamie). That line where reality and fiction jutted up against each other.” I was going to wait and review these for the Sherlock Retelling discussion, but then I realized I’ll be out of town for that and I’m terrible about participating in those discussion anyway so instead I’m going to review it now so y’all can read it and discuss it in my place.
(4 stars) A Study in Charlotte (Charlotte Holmes #1) by Brittany Cavallaro Here are several YA novels, most of which were pretty good ( Pulp was GREAT) if anyone needs to fill a Youths square!
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