Searching for that rush...

Hi guys, I'm really making up for not posting for about three months, with two posts in one week.. ONE! (Snaps for Annie) who would have thought!? Haha.. Well anyway, my lovely boyfriend bought me this book and I didn't want to start it before I read the original Sherlock Holmes books so I could fairly see how it fitted into the series.  As an Anthony Horowitz fan, (love Alex Rider) I was pretty excited about this book but also quite wary, our Anthony has a habit of having lavish details and a pretty high body count.  I have to say, this book falls right in line with the originals, in a yes, more shocking and twisted story but it's explained at the start by Watson.  He tells us, how he thought this story was too shocking for society at this time so he left it in a safety deposit box with instructions that it wouldn't be opened for a hundred years. Clever, right? As I've mentioned Anthony likes lots of details and lots of bodies, but this book was so well done ...

Hey guys, After about 4 years of saying "I'd love to head the Sherlock series", I bought the complete series of Sherlock Holmes in January 2014 and have just finished all 1,408 pages of it.  The stories themselves are brilliant, you think the case will lead you one way and then BAM! Mind-blowing revelations. Basically everything in which the TV shows and movies have lead us to believe. Though I got to say, the novels made me appreciate the BBC version of Sherlock so much more. To update certain cases the way they have, takes certain talent and knowledge. I'm going to discuss the novels as a whole instead of individual stories, as I would end up writing a dissertation on the subject and 'nobody got time for that'.  The stories give the reader a series of cases, the more famous stories like 'A Study in Scarlett' are single books whereas certain cases like that of Moriarty is a section in a novel. Most stores bar two are 'written' by W...