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The Beekeeper's Apprentice

I just completed The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King. This is the first in the series of novels about an elderly Sherlock Holmes and his young female apprentice.

I browsed across this book in the Pflugerville public library quite some time ago, and when I saw that it was about Sherlock Holmes, I checked it out for Katie who is a big Sherlock Holmes fan. Katie has since read all of Ms. King's novels and takes part in an email list for fans of the novels.

It's difficult to re-use an existing character--especially one so well known as Sherlock Holmes--but Katie thinks that Ms. King has captured the essence of Holmes quite well, even though she sets her novel thirty years after the original stories and gives him a female partner. I didn't enjoy the novel as much as Katie--as the sexual tension and budding romance between Holmes and his companion didn't do as much for me as it did for Katie, but I enjoyed the novel all the same.

Posted by Stan Taylor on May 21, 2006 08:28 PM | Permalink