![]() ![]() The ending is where the story really falls apart and is reminiscent of the August Derleth stories in the Lovecraft universe. ![]() If Holmes had designed such an artifact, why had he not used it earlier when he suspected the snake men had become much more active? There is an attempt to wrap up some loose threads from other stories, such as the snake men that had been released into London but the resolution there seemed too deus ex machina, involving the creation of another Crown to control the snake men. Yes, Lovegrove incorporates some of the elements from the later Holmes stories, such as beekeeping, but it feels tired at this point. Doyle only returned to Holmes reluctantly, and the stories of Holmes towards the end did not have the same energy or enthusiasm as the earlier works. The fist difficulty is with the source material. This book concludes Lovegrove’s trilogy of placing Holmes into a Lovecraftian universe and the results are not that great. Wrapping up a series based on someone else’s original work, doubly so (a fact all Game of Thrones fans learned the hard way this year). ![]()
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