A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

Unless tertiary characters are a thing? There were definitely some scenes from tertiary characters. There was a whole host of scenes from the point of view of characters who ultimately turned out to be secondary at best. When I first started reading, I honestly wouldn’t have been able to tell you who the central character was. Like that its opening chapters were fucking confusing. While I am willing to agree that Thomas is under no obligation to write books to my exact specifications (yet), my other problems with it are of a legitimate nature. And it wasn’t until I was roughly halfway through that I truly let go of that wrong assumption. I looked at that lady in her scarlet dress, and the cracked door with soft light spilling through it, and the name Sherry Thomas emblazoned across the top, and thought, This is a beautiful, sexy, historical romance with a mystery subplot. And to be fair to Thomas, the first is that I made a basic mistake right from the start: I judged her book by its cover. There are a couple of reasons why A Study in Scarlet Women didn’t work for me. And because my two biggest disappointments about Sherlock Holmes is that the female characters are really lacking* and that there’s no romance, I was convinced Sherry Thomas had written her adaption for me. I have a serious love of Sherlock Holmes, and any time there’s a new adaptation, I’m Right There. I suspect the second book will be amazing.

Intriguing characters who don’t reach the heights they could have.

A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas