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Dec 05, 2012Palomino rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Page 2 opens with the word "erotic" and works up to "cocaine"...I deduce that juvenile literature has changed since I was a child!!! I got more than halfway through this implausible, unlikeable stream-of-conciousness before giving into the temptation to just quit, which I should have done at page 2. Boy Sherlock Holmes is Jewish, has no Watson but instead an employer/father-figure who's coughing up a lung while remaining chipper and alert in the way that only fictional dying people can manage. Boy Sherlock also has no Internet because it's set in Victorian times, but he doesn't need one because he already knows everything in the world, and oh, he's become a champion martial artist in his spare time. Everything is written in the present tense. I've got to say, this is the most un-Sherlockian ripoff I've ever come across; only the name is the same.