The Case of the Spellbound Child
Elemental Masters, Book 14
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Gemma Dawson
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Mercedes Lackey
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The 14th novel in the magical alternate history Elemental Masters series continues the reimagined adventures of Sherlock Holmes in a richly detailed alternate 20th-century England.
While Sherlock is still officially dead, John and Mary Watson and Nan Killian and Sarah Lyon-White are taking up some of his caseload - and some for Lord Alderscroft, the Wizard of London.
Lord Alderscroft asks them to go to Dartmoor to track down a rumor of evil magic brewing there. Not more than four hours later, a poor cottager, also from Dartmoor, arrives seeking their help. His wife, in a fit of rage over the children spilling and spoiling their only food for dinner that night, sent them out on the moors to forage for something to eat. This is not the first time she has done this, and the children are moor-wise and unlikely to get into difficulties. But this time they did not come back, and in fact, their tracks abruptly stopped "as if them Pharisees took'd 'em". The man begs them to come help.
They would have said no, but there's the assignment for Alderscroft. Why not kill two birds with one stone?
But the deadly bogs are not the only mires on Dartmoor.
©2019 Mercedes Lackey (P)2021 Audible, Inc.
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Gesamt4 out of 5 stars
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Sprecher5 out of 5 stars
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Geschichte3 out of 5 stars
- Elisabeth
- 14.03.2022
Not enough story to fill a book?
Lackey tacked together two short stories and a long one here that have no connection other than their protagonists. It seems she didn't have enough material to stretch the main plot to full book length.
Leaving aside the short stories, the main one is, on the whole, fine plotwise, though Lackey's use of the runaway children's pov is strange. As long as she needs their viewpoint, she writes about them at length showing interesting characters that are well worth developing further, but after Nan and Sarah appear in the area, she drops the children's pov like a hot potato. Sherlock is, as always, an enigmatic backdrop which is getting annoying, suddenly springing the second half of the crime on the readers two chapters from the end.
All in all the book could have been great had Lackey devoted time to other characters than her favourite female duo.
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