Author: Brittany Cavallaro
Publisher: Katherine Tegen
Publication Date: March 6, 2018
Pages: 349
Format: Hardcover/Library
The hotly anticipated and explosive third book in the New York Times bestselling Charlotte Holmes series.
It’s been a year since the shocking death of August Moriarty, and Jamie and Charlotte haven’t spoken.
Jamie is going through the motions at Sherringford, trying to finish his senior year without incident, with a nice girlfriend he can’t seem to fall for.
Charlotte is on the run, from Lucien Moriarty and from her own mistakes. No one has seen her since that fateful night on the lawn in Sussex—and Charlotte wants it that way. She knows she isn’t safe to be around. She knows her Watson can’t forgive her.
Holmes and Watson may not be looking to reconcile, but when strange things start happening, it’s clear that someone wants the team back together. Someone who has been quietly observing them both. Making plans. Biding their time.
Someone who wants to see one of them suffer and the other one dead.
Review: So I really enjoyed this. We get both Jamie and Charlotte's POVs in this book since they obviously from the description, haven't talked in a year. I thought it was really great getting to see things develop from both angles and in different places, and finally getting a real hard look into Charlotte's head. I also really loved how Jamie 100% was the Watson he is supposed to be in this book. The whole plot revolves more around Jamie and someone framing him for stuff and him having to figure out who was doing it more than Charlotte taking the lead. She was doing more of what seemed the side stuff since she wasn't getting anywhere half as fast as Jamie since he was the main target.
I loved that Jamie became a Watson. He is not longer the bumbling sidekick and is pretty solid figuring things out on his own in this book. He takes the lead and doesn't look back. He even gets his own sidekicks in Lena and Elizabeth. I was not a super big fan of the Jamie/Elizabeth relationship in this book. Despite Jamie trying to be a good boyfriend to her, you could tell his heart wasn't really in it. He was constantly thinking about Charlotte or being reminded of her. He clearly wants Charlotte more than Elizabeth and it wasn't fair to lead her on. But then we also find out she's involved in this whole big thing against Jamie somehow and its like wow. I also liked that Jamie's dad was 100% there for his son. He's even constantly trying to help him cheer up and feel better about things. Compared to their father son relationship in book 1, this is 100% better. I genuinely like Watson Sr. as a character.
And then we have Charlotte. Wow. We get a lot of her background in this story. Background on how she grew up in the Holmes household. Background on her parents relationship and her relationship with them. Background on how she ends up being like she is. It's a lot to take in. We come to realize her parents marriage wasn't really about love, which we see the end result of in this. We see how she never really seemed to get anything near a normal childhood. She is literally raised from a young age to be like her ancestor. She had no room really to be a normal child. I honestly can see why she turned to drugs and stuff in her teens. How she was raised sounds awful. Being like Sherlock Holmes is really cool, but not when its forced upon you at like 5-6 years old. She also is investigating Lucien Moriarty because of past events relating to the other books. And while she gets good leads, she's not the main focus for Lucien. So while she is getting somewhere with the information she gets, its not actually getting her closer to Lucien himself.
Holy shit. I mean that, cuss word and all. Lucien freaking Moriarty had a much bigger, deeper plan than any of us expected and OMG I was shook! I can't even believe it. He's had this plan in motion pretty much since Jamie and Charlotte became friends and he really dug in deep for it. The only thing I can say without spoiling it is he found a way to burrow into one of their families without letting on suspicion that he's a Moriarty. I swear when this whole thing was revealed my heartbeat increased tenfold. And then the realizations that Elizabeth and Anna were children of certain people mentioned a number of times in relation to Lucien. Man.
I really liked that Jamie and Charlotte are showed genuinely trying in the end. Instead of the toxic like relationship we see back and forth in the first two books, we see them really trying to be good for the other and talk more. It was such a positive change that I hope sticks in A Question of Holmes. I also love that Leander has pretty much become Charlotte's guardian. Despite being a Holmes, he is nowhere near as bad of a human being than her actual parents. He actually seems to be more rooted in the real world while having his being a Holmes integrated in it. Not like how her parents were raising her. I think living with and having a good relationship with her uncle, is part of the reason Charlotte seems to be having a much more successful change in herself.
I loved that Jamie became a Watson. He is not longer the bumbling sidekick and is pretty solid figuring things out on his own in this book. He takes the lead and doesn't look back. He even gets his own sidekicks in Lena and Elizabeth. I was not a super big fan of the Jamie/Elizabeth relationship in this book. Despite Jamie trying to be a good boyfriend to her, you could tell his heart wasn't really in it. He was constantly thinking about Charlotte or being reminded of her. He clearly wants Charlotte more than Elizabeth and it wasn't fair to lead her on. But then we also find out she's involved in this whole big thing against Jamie somehow and its like wow. I also liked that Jamie's dad was 100% there for his son. He's even constantly trying to help him cheer up and feel better about things. Compared to their father son relationship in book 1, this is 100% better. I genuinely like Watson Sr. as a character.
And then we have Charlotte. Wow. We get a lot of her background in this story. Background on how she grew up in the Holmes household. Background on her parents relationship and her relationship with them. Background on how she ends up being like she is. It's a lot to take in. We come to realize her parents marriage wasn't really about love, which we see the end result of in this. We see how she never really seemed to get anything near a normal childhood. She is literally raised from a young age to be like her ancestor. She had no room really to be a normal child. I honestly can see why she turned to drugs and stuff in her teens. How she was raised sounds awful. Being like Sherlock Holmes is really cool, but not when its forced upon you at like 5-6 years old. She also is investigating Lucien Moriarty because of past events relating to the other books. And while she gets good leads, she's not the main focus for Lucien. So while she is getting somewhere with the information she gets, its not actually getting her closer to Lucien himself.
Holy shit. I mean that, cuss word and all. Lucien freaking Moriarty had a much bigger, deeper plan than any of us expected and OMG I was shook! I can't even believe it. He's had this plan in motion pretty much since Jamie and Charlotte became friends and he really dug in deep for it. The only thing I can say without spoiling it is he found a way to burrow into one of their families without letting on suspicion that he's a Moriarty. I swear when this whole thing was revealed my heartbeat increased tenfold. And then the realizations that Elizabeth and Anna were children of certain people mentioned a number of times in relation to Lucien. Man.
I really liked that Jamie and Charlotte are showed genuinely trying in the end. Instead of the toxic like relationship we see back and forth in the first two books, we see them really trying to be good for the other and talk more. It was such a positive change that I hope sticks in A Question of Holmes. I also love that Leander has pretty much become Charlotte's guardian. Despite being a Holmes, he is nowhere near as bad of a human being than her actual parents. He actually seems to be more rooted in the real world while having his being a Holmes integrated in it. Not like how her parents were raising her. I think living with and having a good relationship with her uncle, is part of the reason Charlotte seems to be having a much more successful change in herself.
