Brittany Bain

Great concept, poor execution

Revisado: 12-30-24

I love Christmas, and I love Sherlock Holmes. Imagine my excitement when I found a book that married these two loves of mine. It has such a gorgeous cover too.

While the imagery is fantastic, told succinctly and vividly capturing Christmas essence with most scenes, What Child is This falls short in many other areas. The story is intriguing enough, and Holmes’ ability of deduction and picking up clues is fun in the story. So What Child is This started out with promise.

The character of Holmes leaves something to be desired. He is often much more cheerful and jovial than Holmes in his original work. There might be spurts of this in the classics, but his serious, often abrasive, demeanor is not captured well in this book.

Now for the crux of my rating. What Child is This was lining up for a solid three or four-star rating, but LGBT nonsense was the focus of the story. It’s not only that it’s difficult to find stories that aren’t saturated with this junk, but transgender nonsense didn’t even exist in the time period this is written for.

Truly sad, because this book had a lot of potential. I won’t be recommending it for anyone.

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