*1.5 / 5

I had such high hopes for this book and it just fell flat entirely for me.

I'm a big fan of Sherlock Holmes stories and the movie / tv show adaptations. Sherlock's character has always been an enigma to me and I've always thoroughly enjoyed his personality and amazing detective skills. So needless to say, when I heard about this modern twist on Sherlock Holmes, and that the main character was going to be a female, I was drawn in.

This book has sat on my TBR shelf for a while, and I finally decided it was time to pick it up and I was so disappointed in how much I did not enjoy this book. The plot was confusing and seemed super jumpy to me. I felt like at one moment it was talking about a certain person or event and then in the span of a sentence, it was on to an entirely different topic. It was just not written smoothly enough for me. And the characters - I just was not invested in them. They didn't draw me in. They didn't capture me. I just was not overly invested in how the story was going and what was going to happen in the end. I just felt super bored the entire time I was reading it.

Multiple times I considered putting this book down and considering it a DNF. But alas, I continued until the end. I think I'm just going to chalk up this experience to the fact that this book just wasn't what I had hoped it to be - and that's ok. Not all books are liked by everyone, and this one just happened to be one that wasn't for me.