![]() ![]() I think so, though I’m not an entirely trustworthy source because I did read book one, and I really enjoyed it. I know there has been some question as to whether this can be read as a stand-alone. Hence my worried brain waking up to fuss about it at 3:30. The mess that mystery creates is not, and it leaves characters I care about in an uncertain place. To put it another way, the mystery is resolved by the final page. Obviously this book is not a romance, but enough is sad and uncertain at the end, my readerly brain struggled with the ending, though the major points of the story are resolved. Then I woke up around 3:30am the night after I finished it, my brain spinning and unhappy, similar to the way I woke up after seeing Wonder Woman, fixating on the scene after the mustard gas. I followed this book where it led me and was extremely content. Everything that I found so enthralling about the first book in this series, A Study in Scarlet Women, I found here: layers of meaning, thoughtful scenes and pieces of dialogue, multi-faceted examinations of simple but painful concepts, a wickedly sharp through-line of feminism and subversion, and the sense that each scene and word was placed deliberately, with additional meaning. I was so absorbed in this novel, I read it in one long, very lovely day, the kind of weekend day where you look back with a sort of awed gratitude that you spent most of the daylight hours reading happily. Genre: Historical: European, Mystery/Thriller ![]()
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