"Sherlock, but Make Him Likable and Also a not-quite-fallen Angel" I stole that from a review on Tor.
The book does an AMAZING job at showing the relationship between Doyle (based on Watson) and Crow. From Watson's point of view, it is at least as much about him, even though insightful but at right-angles to humanity Crow is the most distinctive character.
It does a great job remixing the original setting to a world where angels (of buildings), werewolf communities, seances, rogue demons in the Afghanistan war etc are a normal part of life. The remixed mysteries are all familiar, but MAKE SENSE with the rules of the world.
It also does a good job of showing different sorts of people (different nationalities, different ethnicities, different genders, different cistransness) who existed in society without replicating Victorian prejudices, but mostly successfully expressed through non-anachronistic viewpoints.
The only other thing I wanted was more of it: not character, more setting. The framing story about Jack the Ripper is a good hook but isn't as interesting as the individual episodes, and I was impatient for More.
The book does an AMAZING job at showing the relationship between Doyle (based on Watson) and Crow. From Watson's point of view, it is at least as much about him, even though insightful but at right-angles to humanity Crow is the most distinctive character.
It does a great job remixing the original setting to a world where angels (of buildings), werewolf communities, seances, rogue demons in the Afghanistan war etc are a normal part of life. The remixed mysteries are all familiar, but MAKE SENSE with the rules of the world.
It also does a good job of showing different sorts of people (different nationalities, different ethnicities, different genders, different cistransness) who existed in society without replicating Victorian prejudices, but mostly successfully expressed through non-anachronistic viewpoints.
The only other thing I wanted was more of it: not character, more setting. The framing story about Jack the Ripper is a good hook but isn't as interesting as the individual episodes, and I was impatient for More.