She's not just there for the guys to lust after. Conan Doyle did a good job of making Irene a believable, feminine character who is admired for her intelligence, not her boobage, and who has her own motivations in the story. Holmes starts off being his know-it-all self, but then Irene shows up and things get a helluva lot more interesting. I wasn't expecting much from A Scandal in Bohemia or Irene Adler-I anticipated Conan Doyle would either make her a vamp or a victim, and how much can one build of a character in a single short story anyway? However, I was pleasantly surprised. Holmes, naturally, has a plan, but Irene Adler is one step ahead of him. The King of Bohemia comes to Holmes asking for help in the return of a set of letters, which detail his affair with Irene, to whom he was engaged but dumped in favor of marrying a princess. But A Scandal in Bohemia was one of the selections in a Librivox short mystery collection I downloaded, and I thought it wouldn't hurt to give it a try.Ī Scandal in Bohemia is famous for marking the appearance of Irene Adler, the only person to have ever bested Sherlock Holmes.
In other people's work-not Arthur Conan Doyle's. So I decided 'twas not for me and moved on with my life.įast forward a decade or *cough* two, and I've gradually warmed up to Sherlock Holmes. I'm aware that that's the entire point of Sherlock, and it wouldn't even have bothered me too much if he'd had one or two redeeming qualities, but he didn't. There were no interesting female characters, and Sherlock himself was an arrogant ass.
And Sherlock is supposed to be the greatest mystery solver of all time, right? So imagine my disappointment when I was kind of bored with the book. We had to read it in sixth grade English and I was SUPER excited because 1.
I wasn't going to write reviews for these short stories, but then the second season of BBC's Sherlock started, and I thought, why not? For those of you who don't watch the show, each episode of the second season of Sherlock was based on the three most popular Sherlock Holmes mysteries: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Hounds of Baskerville, and The Final Problem.Īs I've said before in my review of The Sherlockian ( Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and Books), I'm not a big fan of Sherlock Holmes mysteries, and it all started with The Hounds of Baskerville. Found in: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ( Librivox| Project Gutenberg)
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