Brittany Cavallaro
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- Vedertaget namn
- Cavallaro, Brittany
- Födelsedag
- 1986
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Springfield, Illinois, USA
- Utbildning
- Interlochen Arts Academy
Middlebury College
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Yrken
- Enseignante
Auteur - Organisationer
- Northwestern University’s CTD program
- Priser och utmärkelser
- David and Jean Milofsky Prize (Creative Writing)
Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship
Distinguished Dissertator Fellowship
Chancellor’s Fellowship - Agent
- Lana Popovic (Chalberg and Sussman)
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- Verk
- 16
- Även av
- 3
- Medlemmar
- 3,509
- Popularitet
- #7,242
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 167
- ISBN
- 94
- Språk
- 5
On a different note, I want to touch on the one element of this book that completely took me out of the story again and again. This was the ridiculous contrivance of setting A Study in a universe just like ours except Sherlock Holmes and John Watson were real people whose progeny have been working together in similar relationships for generations since.
Such a legacy might have lingered on past the original Holmes and Watson but there is no way, NO WAY that it could have continued into the 20th and 21st century. Nowadays, the average person is just too obsessed with developing their sense of individuality to care about what their great-great-grandparents did.
Worst of all was Watson's father, who is so obsessed with the role of a Watson that he encourages his teenaged son to single-handedly care for a Holmes friend who is coming down from a cocaine/oxy high without checking on either of them at any point. And then this same father has the audacity to actually express concern later on when that same son's life is endangered?! When did he decide to become a concerned father? Oh, only when "it's no longer just an adventure." As if a teenager using hard drugs isn't reason enough to worry...
All that being said, I did really enjoy the book. Like most fanfics, all its plot is curated, not for realism's sake, but for drama and payoff. This makes it addictive, even for someone like me who claims to know better. While I do worry a bit about the romantic delusions A Study In Charlotte might put into a teenage reader's head, I have to remind myself that I went through the same phase myself, and I turned out mostly fine in the end.… (mer)