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"The Angel of the Crows" is Sherlock Holmes, except not. If you like both Sherlock Holmes retellings/inspired fiction and Fantasy, you will love this. This book had so much that I loved: As mentioned above, it's Sherlock Holmes, except not. Crow and Doyle show similarities to Holmes and Watson, but they are not quite them, differing through the way the world of this story works, but similar enough, that you can recognise them. What I loved especially, is that it's not just roughly inspired by Sherlock Holmes, but you can tell the author has read the Sherlock Holmes stories and knows them. I am still making my way through the catalogue of Sherlock Holmes short stories, but I recognised both a few familiar plots and the vibe of the mysteries. Even though this story has an overarching plot and mystery, it is divided into a lot of shorter parts, which mirror the short story format of a lot of the original Sherlock Holmes mystery. As someone who has loved Sherlock Holmes inspired stories for a long time and who has recently come to love the original Sherlock Holmes works, this made me very happy. I love stories with angels and the different interpretations of them, even and honestly especially when they get partly removed from religious contexts and treated more like mythological being alongside others like werewolves and vampires. That is very much what happened in this book, and I found the worldbuilding around angels very fascinating. The rest of the incorporation of different supernatural beings as normal parts of the world and society also appealed to me very much, but it was especially the worldbuilding around angels that even now that I finished this book, would like to return to this world to know more about this. Yes, I would gladly read another book set in this universe, no matter who the characters are, just to get more glimpses into the mechanics behind angels and fallen angels etc. This book offers all the comfort of the familiar Holmes-and-Watson dynamic and their mysteries, while offering a lot of new things in the form of worldbuilding and new interpretations on classic characters and mysteries. I fell deeply in love with this world and its characters, and I can really not recommend this enough if you like both Sherlock Holmes and to read Fantasy.
Feb 23, 2026
"The Angel of the Crows" is Sherlock Holmes, except not. If you like both Sherlock Holmes retellings/inspired fiction and Fantasy, you will love this. This book had so much that I loved: As mentioned above, it's Sherlock Holmes, except not. Crow and Doyle show similarities to Holmes and Watson, but they are not quite them, differing through the way the world of this story works, but similar enough, that you can recognise them. What I loved especially, is that it's not just roughly inspired by Sherlock Holmes, but you can tell the author has read the Sherlock Holmes stories and knows them. I am still making my way through the catalogue of Sherlock Holmes short stories, but I recognised both a few familiar plots and the vibe of the mysteries. Even though this story has an overarching plot and mystery, it is divided into a lot of shorter parts, which mirror the short story format of a lot of the original Sherlock Holmes mystery. As someone who has loved Sherlock Holmes inspired stories for a long time and who has recently come to love the original Sherlock Holmes works, this made me very happy. I love stories with angels and the different interpretations of them, even and honestly especially when they get partly removed from religious contexts and treated more like mythological being alongside others like werewolves and vampires. That is very much what happened in this book, and I found the worldbuilding around angels very fascinating. The rest of the incorporation of different supernatural beings as normal parts of the world and society also appealed to me very much, but it was especially the worldbuilding around angels that even now that I finished this book, would like to return to this world to know more about this. Yes, I would gladly read another book set in this universe, no matter who the characters are, just to get more glimpses into the mechanics behind angels and fallen angels etc. This book offers all the comfort of the familiar Holmes-and-Watson dynamic and their mysteries, while offering a lot of new things in the form of worldbuilding and new interpretations on classic characters and mysteries. I fell deeply in love with this world and its characters, and I can really not recommend this enough if you like both Sherlock Holmes and to read Fantasy.
Feb 23, 2026
