The Return of Moriarty (Professor Moriarty Book 1)
The Revenge of Moriarty (Professor Moriarty Book 2)
- John Gardner
These offer an interesting take on Moriarty's exploits. However, it became repetitive after a point, describing the gangster's daily business of crimes. The major feats and character studu of Moriarty were more intriguing. In the second book also, the big plans and schemes and evolution of Moariarty's character were imaginative. However the descriptions of daily business felt even more repetitive. It is interesting to note that many of Holmes pastiche works have a PoV on Jack the Ripper crimes, and this novel also offered a decent twist on it.
Read and Reviewed in Oct 2020
My Man Jeeves (Jeeves #1)
- P.G. Wodehouse
After receiving numerous recos for Wodehouse as the most wonderful work of english humour, I started with the Blandings Castle series and read six of them, after which it became kind of tedious. I think it is best to read them in between other works, to change the mood, rather than at a go.
Anyhow, these are tough times, and after reading a couple of other books, I thought I will give Jeeves a try. After all, he is perhaps the most famous creation of Wodehouse. My man Jeeves was entertaining and amusing alright, but I was also a bit disappointed. For one, I expected a novel, but it was a collection of stories. Secondly, only half of the stories featured Jeeves, the other half related the antics of another set of characters. Jeeves stories follow a similar pattern ... One of Bertie's friends gets into trouble, they seek Jeeves' advice, which backfires. Then when they give up, Jeeves manages to set it right. Not bad to cheer one up, but I feel they should rather be used as a palate cleanser.
Read and Reviewed in Apr 2020
The Woman in White
- Collins, Wilkie
Fairly good and entertaining suspense thriller, set in Victorian times. Though I found it a little too verbose .... there were lengthy descriptions, which I eventually skipped. I'm not particularly fond of reading a 7-page description of the heroine's beauty, or a character's tangential thought-line. It also was full of cliches, most of them non-endearing.
Read and Reviewed in Jan 2020
Bride of Pendorric
- Holt, Victoria
This was much better than the previous two Victoria Holt books I read (which were a huge disappointment to my memories of enjoying her books immensely). It was something of a typical Holt story - a titled, handsome hero, a young naive heroine, an immediate attraction and grave misunderstandings. It was an enjoyable read, even suspenseful during the middle, but by the last quarter I figured out what would be the big reveal.
What I don't understand is that why in all these 18th or 19th century romances, the young heroine, barely out of her teens, fall for a man 15 or more years older to her, practically double her age at the time.
Read and Reviewed in Jan 2020
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