Don’t waste a credit

This started off so well and quickly went downhill. Let’s start with the story. First of all, as any Holmes reader knows, Moriarty was a Professor, whose sidekick was Colonel Moran. So hearing “Colonel Moriarty” was a no-no almost before the book began. That is just plain carelessness and unforgivable. The story then quickly goes into boring drivel mode, with a long, long section of some letters being read, a section that lasts so long it becomes pointless. Where is the excitement? Perhaps it was in the last 90 minutes, which was when I realised I would rather watch a fly walk up the window than finish it. There is little tension. The plot seems to go off into irrelevant territory and meanders its way back with the odd forced deduction explanation from Holmes.

The narrator is simply awful. His voice has a hard edge that is grating; he puts emphasis where none should be and, most importantly when you are listening to a book, you cannot tell who is speaking because all the character voices are the same voice with the same intonations, unless the author has written “said I softly”, at which point, his tone softens. If I could return it, I would. I shall keep an eye out for when I can because this is just not up to scratch on either the writing/plot/character side or the narration side.

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