I read this book fairly easily and it took me no more than 4 days to finish it. Even though I enjoyed the story and it was exactly the type of book I needed to read at the time, I have a few points I need to make that aren't in favor of the book.

Firstly, I'll mention something that's totally my personal preference: I never liked Watson as a character, even in the original Sherlock Holmes stories, so having a book narrated by Watson wasn't ideal.

My second point is that the characters had minor changes and when I say "minor" I use the word quite literally. It's very ambitious to try and reimagine the legendary Sherlock Holmes, but I think it wasn't done in the best way possible, because Charlotte Holmes is like a caricature. Also, after so many years, someone might think that a person would change their habits, etc but not in this case. It's like they froze Sherlock Holmes' DNA and then recreated Charlotte Holmes. No development whatsoever. It feels more like trying to rewrite the original stories in a modern setting than reimagining them.

My last point has to do with the romance. Because of course there would be romance between Jamie and Charlotte. Of course. You can't have a boy and a girl work together without them falling for each other. Nope. It wasn't what I wanted to read, it wasn't necessary and it felt forced. Also, there wasn't any consistency with Charlotte's character, because she seemed unusually sensitive towards Jamie and that didn't fit with her personality that was built when the story started and also I didn't see any character development that led her to feel like this. I'm not even going to comment on Jamie's borderline stalkerish infatuation!

That was all I had to say about the book, I really hoped it was done a bit differently, so I could enjoy it more.