On this second installment of the Janet Watson Chronicles, Dr.
Watson and Sara Holmes infiltrate a secret facility contained in the New Confederacy
to foil a diabolical assassination plot.
Set in a futuristic America divided by a New Civil Struggle, O’Dell’s (A
Examine in Honor, 2018) speculative tackle the Sherlock Holmes mythology
picks up the place the primary novel left off. Dr. Janet Watson, having misplaced an arm
within the combat in opposition to Nadine Adler, is adapting to her prosthetic and itching to
be cleared to carry out surgical procedure once more. Her pal and Washington, D.C., roommate,
Sara Holmes, is on indefinite depart from no matter “alphabet company” she
works for and is usually going stir-crazy. On Inauguration Day, the
Brotherhood of Redemption, an extremist faction of the New Confederacy, units
off numerous explosions. Sara and Janet concern that is solely the tip of a a lot
extra harmful terrorist plot. Moreover, there are a selection of mysterious
deaths on the hospital. Whereas Janet tries to get her life again on monitor—rounds,
follow surgical procedures, and some dates with a pretty bookstore proprietor—Sara is
laying the groundwork for a protracted sport. When she disappears, Janet should journey south
after which cross the border into the New Confederacy to discover a hardcore group of
resistance fighters and assist them rescue a kidnapped biochemist. O’Dell’s
imagined America is a grim place, each mired within the racial violence and
prejudice of the previous and splintered aside by the harmful politics of Trump
and people who, speculatively, have succeeded him. The hyperlinks to Sherlock Holmes
present a deeper skeleton framework to the story, however one wonders how essential
it is going to be in future novels. Janet and Sara are complicated African American girls
who haven’t any have to be tied to white, male, British detectives of the previous.
When these all-female, largely black resistance fighters weapon up, they kick
some severe bad-guy (and -girl) ass.
Learn it for the motion scenes and savor some candy friendship
moments in between.
