Sherlock Holmes and the Menacing Moors
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Sherlock Holmes and the Menacing Moors
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Steve White
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Allan Mitchell
A call from an old comrade has Holmes chasing a reported agent of Satan between the towering tors and bottomless bogs of Dartmoor only to find the limits of his own confidence and his public's esteem. Only Watson stands his friend, but even his patience is stretched. Sherlock's retreat to the bees of Sussex serves only to show him that his skills are unique and are desperately needed elsewhere. On returning to London, Holmes finds malign forces have been bringing ridicule to his doorstep. In this tale, the great sleuth is brought to life, uniquely, in expressive verse, a favorite form of the author who loves the language of Sherlock Holmes and the Menacing Moors.
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This, however, is not. To paraphrase Yoda, "Rhythm? Heh! Meter? Heh! A bad poet craves not these things." And it's a good thing, because rhythm, meter, even consistent scansion are completely missing. Some lines have too many extra syllables crammed in, some too few. Many of the rhymes are dreadful, and often repeat themselves. The author contorts the story in ridiculous ways to fit in the rhymes, and there are several bits that don't feel like they belong.
This is made an order of magnitude worse by the narrator. I have long said that this person should give up being a narrator, as he lacks the talent for it. But this makes things even worse. He hits the end of every line hard, and pauses before the next line, which makes the problems with the poetry far more obvious to the ear. I will admit that his mispronunciations are less frequent, but that is only because the author rarely uses any Victorian words, so the narrator's lack of knowledge of them doesn't get exposed too often.
So to sum up: Run, don't walk, away from this! If I had not promised an honest review of this in exchange for a free copy, I would never have bothered to finish. Instead, I am slogging my way through the sequel, of which more anon.
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