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2.0 out of 5 stars
Monstrous, indeed.,
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This review is from: A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Paperback)
As the story opens, Mary Russell has finished her studies at Oxford and is about to come of age and receive a sizeable inheritance, evidently quite a heady experience. Her first act is to summarily evict her hated aunt from the Sussex farmhouse and have it stripped for renovation. Our once appealingly down-to-earth heroine then acquires a bespoke wardrobe, a luxury flat (with staff) in London, and a posse of feminist friends. With the world at her size-ten feet, Russell's once-cherished relationship with her mentor and friend Sherlock Holmes has seemingly disintegrated into a platonic pantomime play, punctuated by dress-up adventures and retreats into various bolt-holes around the city. Holmes takes on the role of a friendly and ever-obliging stalker, conveniently rescuing her whenever she needs a cab or steps out into the rain without her brolly. His patience with her extremes of behavior seemingly knows no limits.When she become suspicious about a series of deaths of female activists surrounding a strange feminist mystic, Russell contacts Scotland Yard's Inspector Lestrade on her own. But London, and we, are not quite prepared for the Attack of the Six-foot Woman (height, incidentally, being a feature not readily disguised by either clothing or make-up, a fact which the writer occasionally lets slide). Events soon spin out of her control. When she begins ordering Holmes around as if he is one of his own street urchins, our heroine is rapidly turning into a harridan. The Great Detective as factotum? This is not the Sherlock Holmes we know and love. When he is finally forced to resort to cold-cocking her in order to rein her in, we are ready to stand up and cheer. I found this a somewhat disappointing continuation of this author's delightful previous novel, "The Beekeeper's Apprentice." Both of the main characters, and we readers, deserve better than this. Hopefully King can do some course correction in their subsequent adventures.
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