I'm well impressed that you tried to read the sequels!! I'm so glad - and frankly, shocked - that they were good. They had so much potential it really killed me to hate the first one so much.
Do try Enola Holmes again -- I enjoyed some more than others, but they all help a blisteringly hot day pass.
It just seemed like such a great premise & I was so surprised at bouncing off of the first that I couldn't let a sleeping dog lie, I guess? I'm so happy that I reacted so differently to the others.
I'll try Enola again for sure, and I'll be sure to try a couple, versus just one.
Have you read any of the Wollstoncraft Detective Agency books? I feel like they would be right up my alley but that feeling has led me astray a LOT lately...
I *almost* think I tried the first one some time back, but I might be mixing it up with either Enola Holmes* or the Grimm Sisters, both of which I *know* I tried (and both of which I'm pretty sure I bounced off of)? What have you tried & bounced off of recently? I'm so curious!
In the last couple months I've given up on The Embroidered Book, Agnes at the End of the World, The Gilded Ones, A Rush of Wings, and the first Grimm Sisters. On the other hand, I've really enjoyed The Dictionary of Lost Words, Silver in the Wood, Siren Queen, and Fingersmith. I'm also having fun with the audio of Salty, Bitter, Sweet - great narrator.
Patrons at the library have really been liking Dictionary of Lost Words, I'll have to take a closer look! ...I just looked up Silver in the Wood and the Siren Queen, and I'm just going to add them to the library order I'm working on RIGHT. NOW.
Oh, and I *loved* Fingersmith—if you haven't seen the 2016 adaptation called The Handmaiden, it's gorgeous and fantastic.
I'm well impressed that you tried to read the sequels!! I'm so glad - and frankly, shocked - that they were good. They had so much potential it really killed me to hate the first one so much.
Do try Enola Holmes again -- I enjoyed some more than others, but they all help a blisteringly hot day pass.
It just seemed like such a great premise & I was so surprised at bouncing off of the first that I couldn't let a sleeping dog lie, I guess? I'm so happy that I reacted so differently to the others.
I'll try Enola again for sure, and I'll be sure to try a couple, versus just one.
Have you read any of the Wollstoncraft Detective Agency books? I feel like they would be right up my alley but that feeling has led me astray a LOT lately...
I *almost* think I tried the first one some time back, but I might be mixing it up with either Enola Holmes* or the Grimm Sisters, both of which I *know* I tried (and both of which I'm pretty sure I bounced off of)? What have you tried & bounced off of recently? I'm so curious!
*I might try Enola again, though???
In the last couple months I've given up on The Embroidered Book, Agnes at the End of the World, The Gilded Ones, A Rush of Wings, and the first Grimm Sisters. On the other hand, I've really enjoyed The Dictionary of Lost Words, Silver in the Wood, Siren Queen, and Fingersmith. I'm also having fun with the audio of Salty, Bitter, Sweet - great narrator.
Patrons at the library have really been liking Dictionary of Lost Words, I'll have to take a closer look! ...I just looked up Silver in the Wood and the Siren Queen, and I'm just going to add them to the library order I'm working on RIGHT. NOW.
Oh, and I *loved* Fingersmith—if you haven't seen the 2016 adaptation called The Handmaiden, it's gorgeous and fantastic.