RUSA SRC – Region #4 Northeast – Connecticut
3.8/5 When taking on the 2023 Stellar Reading Challenges (SRC), particularly with the U.S.-centric one, I aimed to read books set in the “less popular states.” When I saw book set in Connecticut, as opposed to New York, and that it offered a contemporary twist on Sherlock Holmes on The Book Girls’ Guide. The first book in the Charlotte Holmes Series, A Study in Charlotte, fit the bill. Click here to see The Book Girls’ Guide’s post on
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“The last thing Jamie Watson wants is a rugby scholarship to Sherringford, a Connecticut prep school just an hour away from his estranged father. But that’s not the only complication: Sherringford is also home to Charlotte Holmes, the famous detective’s great-great-great-granddaughter, who has inherited not only Sherlock’s genius but also his volatile temperament. From everything Jamie has heard about Charlotte, it seems safer to admire her from afar… From the moment they meet, there’s a tense energy between them, and they seem more destined to be rivals than anything else. But when a Sherringford student dies under suspicious circumstances, ripped straight from the most terrifying of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Jamie can no longer afford to keep his distance. Jamie and Charlotte are being framed for murder, and only Charlotte can clear their names. But danger is mounting and nowhere is safe—and the only people they can trust are each other.”
For the most part, I enjoyed A Study in Charlotte. I liked how Sherlock Holmes and John Watson truly existed in the Charlotte Holmes universe crafted by Cavallaro. Jamie and Charlotte intrigued me. While Connecticut remains on my leap list, I imagined with ease the Sherringford campus in the Nutmeg State. Someday, I might read the next in the Charlotte Holmes Series. I took off 1.2 stars on my rating for perhaps some arbitrary reasons — 1) I have yet to read Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes Series and I had to return my copy a number of times because others wanted to read A Study in Charlotte.
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