I thought this was a super great ending to this series. I loved the theater setting. I also loved how complex the realtionshipb between these two characers has been thougout this whole series and espeically this book. I also sometimes struggle with unlikable main character but i have grown to love holmes character in this whole series and just loved this sereis overall!! ( )

I thought this was a super great ending to this series. I loved the theater setting. I also loved how complex the realtionshipb between these two characers has been thougout this whole series and espeically this book. I also sometimes struggle with unlikable main character but i have grown to love holmes character in this whole series and just loved this sereis overall!! ( )

This is the final book in the Charlotte Holmes series which follows the descendants of the original Holmes and Watson. This installment is set in at Oxford. There is a pre-college program that Jamie and Charlotte are taking part in and naturally they stumble upon a mystery. Last summer a series of accidents escalated to the point that a girl went missing and was never found. The sleuths want to stop something similar from happening again this summer.

Things I loved: Charlotte's POV was fun to see, the setting, the characters backstories

Things I didn't love: the ending, missed Jamie's POV, too short (so much more could have been explored further (mainly the family relationships)), a certain reveal that kind of annoyed me a lot, I was underwhelmed by most of the reveals

This was a bit of a letdown. I was wanting an awesome conclusion, but this didn't deliver. The ending brought this book from a 4 star to a 3 which is so disappointing as this was one of my favorite series. There were so many aspects to it that made it feel rushed and poorly thought out. Things were tied up in a way that suggests there will never be another book (this is the final, so this makes sense) but at the same time, the ending in itself leaves so many things open. I have questions that I want answered.

I wanted to love this novel as much as the rest of the series, but unfortunately I just really didn't. ( )

This is the final book in the Charlotte Holmes series which follows the descendants of the original Holmes and Watson. This installment is set in at Oxford. There is a pre-college program that Jamie and Charlotte are taking part in and naturally they stumble upon a mystery. Last summer a series of accidents escalated to the point that a girl went missing and was never found. The sleuths want to stop something similar from happening again this summer.

Things I loved: Charlotte's POV was fun to see, the setting, the characters backstories

Things I didn't love: the ending, missed Jamie's POV, too short (so much more could have been explored further (mainly the family relationships)), a certain reveal that kind of annoyed me a lot, I was underwhelmed by most of the reveals

This was a bit of a letdown. I was wanting an awesome conclusion, but this didn't deliver. The ending brought this book from a 4 star to a 3 which is so disappointing as this was one of my favorite series. There were so many aspects to it that made it feel rushed and poorly thought out. Things were tied up in a way that suggests there will never be another book (this is the final, so this makes sense) but at the same time, the ending in itself leaves so many things open. I have questions that I want answered.

I wanted to love this novel as much as the rest of the series, but unfortunately I just really didn't. ( )

I think I knew going into this that this whole book would be more about Charlotte and Jamie finding their way post-Moriarty than either the book's mystery or the Holmes-Watson-Moriarty drama, and from that perspective, A Question of Holmes proved very satisfying. But I, like many other readers, found the ending frustrating.

Cavallaro has shown a predilection for narrative ambiguity throughout the series, and while it has at times annoyed me—mostly because it came across less as narrative ambiguity than narrative obfuscation, the author sniggering over her cleverness instead of realizing she's failed to hint at half the things she thinks she has—it's also read as an appropriate echo of Charlotte and Jamie's emotional immaturity and preoccupation with their own cleverness.

But Charlotte and Jamie come so far in this last book, have such mature and vulnerable conversations, that ending the series with her typical slapdash ambiguity felt like regression. I believe Cavallaro intended to offer a "realistic" portrait of two people carefully unfolding their love for one another into a world they know all too well offers a surfeit of uncertainty and danger, but my ability to believe that says much more about my skill as a fanfic reader than Cavallaro's skill as a subtle, nuanced writer of relationships.

I've enjoyed this series very much, and am very proud of how much Charlotte and Jamie have grown in the course of it, but I think they deserved—have earned, even—a little more clarity in their epilogue than their author provided here. ( )