She’s an orphan with an evil step-mother aunt, but she has amazing freedom. She’s also meant to be a feminist fighting adversity, but she’s never faced with the barriers you’d expect a woman detective at the beginning of the 20th century would experience. Just for fun, I’ve made a list of the things Mary excels at: beauty, wealth yet knowing the value of money, being loved by everyone almost instantly, slenderness, chess-playing, intelligence (lots of stuff included here: chemistry, maths, theology, etc), good memory, attention to detail, intuition, courage, appeasing ravenous dogs, disguises, running, climbing, aiming and throwing, tarot reading, juggling, card and magic tricks, puzzles and encryptions, accents and languages, following a trail, child psychology, curing post-traumatic stress disorder, nice hair, healing (changing gauze, applying poultices, knowing what to do in general), driving. I got the feeling that King simply chose a favorite literary crush and then projected her wish-fulfilment fantasy onto Mary. Her gifts just keep piling up at an incredible speed from the first moment we meet her.
It’s been a long time since I come across such a Mary Sue. The fact is: I didn't really like The Beekeeper’s Apprentice.
A quicker response may be possible via email to might have been a matter of timing, or the way I experience the Sherlock Holmes canon, it might even be all Jeremy Brett’s fault. Please note that Laurie checks her Goodreads inbox intermittently, so it may take some time to receive a reply. King lives in northern California, which serves as backdrop for some of her books. The Kate Martinelli series follows an SFPD detective's cases on a female Rembrandt, a holy fool, and more. The Stuyvesant and Grey series ( Touchstone The Bones of Paris) takes place in Europe between the Wars. The Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series follows a brilliant young woman who becomes the student, then partner, of the great detective. King's 2018 novel, Island of the Mad, sees Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes travel from London's Bedlam to the glitter of Venice's Lido,where Young Things and the friends of Cole Porter pass Mussolini's Blackshirts in the streets. THE LRK VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB here on Goodreads-please join us for book-discussing fun. King writes series and standalone novels.
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