unicorndeburgh reviewed The God of the Hive by Laurie R. King (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes)
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The Language of Bees was published last April, and "The God of the Hive" was published this past Tuesday. Looking at LibraryThing, I see that I finished the first book on May 2nd, 2009. I don't tend to retain a clear memory of the plot of a book. I remember characters, incidents, images, and phrases. I recalled that in the first book, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes rarely interacted, each rushing off in a different direction. I also remember an unsatisfactory, cliff-hanger ending.[return][return]Hearing that the two interlock, I sat down on Saturday morning to re-read the first book. I stopped short of finishing it before going to bed after midnight, because it was getting scary enough that I thought it would keep me awake. In the Sunday morning sunshine, I read the dramatic conclusion, then opened the second book and dove in. [return][return]Oh my oh my oh my, how I …
The Language of Bees was published last April, and "The God of the Hive" was published this past Tuesday. Looking at LibraryThing, I see that I finished the first book on May 2nd, 2009. I don't tend to retain a clear memory of the plot of a book. I remember characters, incidents, images, and phrases. I recalled that in the first book, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes rarely interacted, each rushing off in a different direction. I also remember an unsatisfactory, cliff-hanger ending.[return][return]Hearing that the two interlock, I sat down on Saturday morning to re-read the first book. I stopped short of finishing it before going to bed after midnight, because it was getting scary enough that I thought it would keep me awake. In the Sunday morning sunshine, I read the dramatic conclusion, then opened the second book and dove in. [return][return]Oh my oh my oh my, how I do love Laurie King's Mary Russell books! I can't say anything about "The God of the Hive" without spoilers. Oh, how she set me up and knocked me over, again and again![return][return]I highly recommend reading these two books back-to-back. If you've already read the first book, don't you want to revisit the retired don, floating down the river on a sunny afternoon, discussing satanic rites and frightening the undergraduates? And Mary Russell alone upstairs in the rental house, listening for the footsteps of the thug with the gun? Oh, yeah, you know you do.[return][return]I am very amused to see that I finished "The God of the Hive", for the second time, on May 2nd, 2010, precisely one year after the first reading.
