Elaine White's Life in Books
The Author
Elaine White is the author of multi-genre MM romance, celebrating 'love is love' and offering diversity in both genre and character within her stories.
Growing up in a small town and fighting cancer in her early teens taught her that life is short and dreams should be pursued. She lives vicariously through her independent, and often hellion characters, exploring all possibilities within the romantic universe.
The Winner of two Watty Awards – Collector's Dream (An Unpredictable Life) and Hidden Gem (Faithfully) – and an Honourable Mention in 2016's Rainbow Awards (A Royal Craving) Elaine is a self-professed geek, reading addict, and a romantic at heart.
The Reviewer
I’m an author and reader, who just can’t get away from books. I discovered the MM genre a few years ago and became addicted.
Top #50 UK reviewer on Goodreads
#1 reviewer on Divine Magazine
The Baker Street Four, Vol. 1
Book – The Baker Street Four, Vol 1Author – Olivier Legrand, J. B. Dijan, David Etien (Illustrations)
Star rating - ★★★★★
No. of Pages – 96
Cover – Perfect!
Would I read it again – Yes
Genre – Comic, Crime, Sherlock Holmes
** COPY RECEIVED THROUGH NETGALLEY **
NOTE: So, thanks to the handy warning at the beginning that it might not read correctly on all devices, I wasn't freaked out that my Kindle copy didn't read right, at first. The text wasn't inside the text bubbles, so I went back to Netgalley, downloaded as a acsm file and that worked just fine once uploaded into Adobe Digital Editions! If you want to read this as Kindle and get the same problem, this is your solution.
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Well, I'll admit that I'm a little surprised. I kind of expected this to be YA friendly, but with the swearing and talk about pimps it really isn't. More NA and up. For fans of Sherlock Holmes, it's a great read and an intriguing one, but definitely not for kids.
This was a fun, adventurous collection of two stories that kept the excitement going from one page to another, including Sherlock Holmes just enough to show the connection. The art/illustrations are gorgeous and so detailed. The attention to detail in the historical period and the Sherlock Holmes situation are spot on and well integrated into the story.
Story 1, The Blue Curtain, is a little more adult than the other, what with swearing and talk about a pimp and a brothel, with less than appropriate language for a YA market. The second story, The Rabúkin Case still has the swearing but the story is more political, about a copycat Jack the Ripper and Russian refugees being tracked by Tsarists.
Overall, it's a great compilation of two Sherlock Holmes inspired stories that really do the original man justice and stick faithfully to the type of adventure and investigative techniques he would use, while allowing the kids to take center state.
