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Full Specification tags: laurie r king(2), victorian mystery, fiction
Product Description
Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, have influenced a rage of a cruel tip classification focussed on infiltrating a government. Now they are distant and on a run, wanted by a police, and followed opposite a Continent by a cruel rivalry with vast resources and absolute connections.
Unstoppable together, Russell and Holmes will have to tarry this time apart, progressing hit usually by means of coded messages and obscure notes. But has a integrate done a deadly mistake by separating, creation themselves easier targets for a murky supervision agents sent to overpower them?
A cenobite with a obscure past and a pleasing immature womanlike alloy with a secret, a rigourously scarred flyer and an spooky male of a cloth: Everyone Russell and Holmes accommodate could possibly speed their protected reunion or misuse them to their enemies—in a many complex, shocking, and deeply personal box of their career.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #16857 in Books
- Published on: 2011-08-09
- Released on: 2011-08-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .77" w x 5.15" l, .63 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
Laurie R. King on The God of a Hive
Basically, we have a low threshold for boredom. For a array author this can be a dangerous thing, given any array is to some border a same people doing things identical to what they did before. Over a years, I’ve gotten around this by swapping one array with another, and tossing in a occasional standalone.
But sometimes, we find myself essay a same characters that we did a prior year. Which is fine, we like my characters, and we can always find something for them to do. Even so, there is a gloomy atmosphere of hazard in a second year with a same people, rather like carrying good friends to stay on an island shelter and carrying a unequivocally good time and wishing they could stay longer until a morning comes when they’re scheduled to take off and a overpass is out, and your vessel sinks, and a charge comes adult and flattering shortly they’ve been there for a month and we start to complain and snap and consternation what a demon we ever saw in these parasites, and we eye a hatchet and a rodent poison and...
Because we know that we have a low threshold for a same faces, whenever we have characters who demeanour as if they’re going to stay on longer than I’d creatively intended, we arrange things so that we don’t have a possibility to get wearied with any other. Little projects and changes of perspective help: noise a characters on a vessel and send them to India, say, followed by something wholly opposite like San Francisco. And make a initial one a perspective thriller, and a second one some-more psychological suspense: hence The Game and Locked Rooms. Bring in a chronological investigator writer--Dashiell Hammett--and voila! No possibility to wear on one another’s nerves!
Similarly, a group of players who come behind from San Francisco onto belligerent that’s been worked before--how many times can one write an English Country House Mystery?--needs to have something astonishing thrown during them, and during a true reader. You consider we know a characters? Well, how about a long-lost son for Sherlock Holmes--and if that’s not enough, maybe give him a granddaughter as well? Then for a following year, take a mixture of The Language of Bees and change it from initial chairman to mixed points of view, toss with a lurch of complicated espionage and a trace of ancient British mythology, and flow them all out onto Westminster Bridge in a diminutive hours, and we have The God of a Hive.
And subsequent year, when a third Russell & Holmes in a quarrel comes out? we devise on--but no, let’s let that be a surprise. Let us usually say, what they will do is amply opposite from The God of a Hive that it will save them from a dangers of an author’s malicious imagination: final time a author got sleepy of Sherlock Holmes, it led to a dive off a high waterfall.
From Publishers Weekly
Those who enjoyed a 2009 film Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jr. competence conclude bestseller King's heavy-on-action, light-on-deduction 10th novel featuring Mary Russell and her most comparison husband, Conan Doyle's iconic detective. The tract picks adult in a summer of 1924 right after a prior entrance in a series, The Language of Bees. A eremite fanatic, Rev. Thomas Brothers, who seeks to unleash penetrating energies by tellurian sacrifice, has shot Holmes's artist son, Damian Adler, severely wounding a immature man. Holmes's unfortunate query for medical assistance to save his son's life takes him to Holland, while Mary travels around Britain in an bid to keep Damian's half-Chinese daughter, Estelle, protected from Brothers and his allies. Cliffhanging situations everywhere as both leads advantage from a available coming of intensely useful strangers. (May)
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From Booklist
*Starred Review* Using brief chapters and wielding her practical coop like a varnished sword, King allows readers to competition by this gloriously formidable second half of final year’s Language of Bees. Sherlock Holmes is perplexing to get his sincerely bleeding son, a artist Damien Adler, out of England. Holmes’ wife, Mary Russell, is perplexing to strengthen Estelle, Damien’s tiny daughter. Mycroft Holmes, recuperating from a heart attack, unexpected goes missing. The maniac obliged for Damien’s damage was once married to Damien’s recently murdered Chinese wife. A woodland impression who could be a Green Man has a shell-shocked Great War past. The attacks on a Holmes family are specific, devious, cunning, and widespread. How Mary, Holmes, and Mycroft solve this conundrum—usually while distant from one another—is defined in glowing prose. The nascent and hilly growth of atmosphere transport and general write lines; a outcome of a charming and intelligent child on maybe overintellectual adults; descriptions of locales and places around scent, texture, and color—all of it creates for definitely interesting reading. The finish is both obscure and uplifting. Things competence not be utterly what they seem. A few ends are left dangling: one can usually suppose purposefully. Devoted King fans will substantially reread both The Language of Bees and The God of a Hive and consternation about Holmes’ bees and what competence come next. --GraceAnne A. DeCandido
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77 of 80 people found a following examination helpful.
A beautifully told story of myth, poser and suspense
By Sheila L. Beaumont
This is a many gratifying finish to a story begun in "The Language of Bees." Ms. King remarkably refreshes a reader's memory of a dim events in that novel as she traces a separate, nomadic journeys of Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell behind to London, and we also find out what Mycroft and assorted villains are adult to. It's tough to contend many about a events in this book nonetheless giving too many away, nonetheless there's copiousness of suspense, mystery, movement and adventure, and a peculiarity of a poetry and a clear description of a characters are adult to a author's common high standards.
The prominence of this book for me was an odd, pleasant new character, a male who comes to a rescue of Russell, her pilot, and Holmes' immature granddaughter, Estelle, after their craft crash-lands in a forest. He introduces himself as Robert Goodman, and Russell can't assistance meditative of him as Robin Goodfellow, or "The Green Man," that was a author's strange operative pretension for this book. Ms. King is also reviving her thesis of a holy fool, that she used so effectively progressing in her Kate Martinelli poser "To Play a Fool." As sparkling and well-plotted as a stirring story of Mycroft, Holmes and Russell vs. a villains is, we saw this book essentially as a absolute mythic tale, with a fey Robert Goodman during a core of it. It's positively one of a really best books in a series.
Be certain to examination "The Language of Bees" before we start this one. And if we haven't examination a progressing installments in a Russell-Holmes series, start with "The Beekeeper's Apprentice." It's a good array for anyone who enjoys well-written poser and torment with intelligent, amiable characters, and it's a must-read for Sherlock Holmes aficionados.
25 of 26 people found a following examination helpful.
A Delightful Escape
By Karie Hoskins
I so didn't wish to finish reading this book. we can't explain accurately what it is about Laurie King's books...but even nonetheless we forsaken out of reading a "mystery/thriller" genre a LONG time ago - we adore her books. They have all a smashing escapism and zero of a cheesiness that hull many "whodunits" for me.
To penetrate behind into a universe of Sherlock Holmes...of shaft holes, Irregulars, disguises and detecting distant before a universe of DNA & CSI...is a delight. And with Mary Russell as a beam - a knowledge is all a some-more delightful. She has all of a intelligence, common clarity and notice of Holmes - with a really indispensable further of care and a pointy wit.
"The business finish of a gun is remarkably distracting. It dominates a world."
"The God of a Hive" brings a reader into a universe of Holmes's hermit Mycroft, customarily a credentials character. The reader is also introduced to newly suggested family members for Holmes and a fascinating impression Russell encounters underneath unfortunate circumstances.
"He stood, ripped between a choices we had given him. It competence be nothing. A charabanc of travelers benighted and looking for help. A rope of Wordsworth fanatics looking for a horde of golden daffodils by moonlight. Even some of Mycroft's group entrance to a assistance - a final done for a poetic thought. But until we knew for certain, we had to provide this as an invasion, and we hated a suspicion that this shop-worn man's munificence of suggestion had brought an sudden detriment of his hard-won peace."
Although a story is during a forefront roughly all of a time...there seems to be a thread of amicable explanation using by a events that was not unwelcome.
"Were 5 armed group another sign of unrest? Or was this simply what complicated life would be, a place where a savage scoundrel is embraced as wise, where children can be shot out of a sky, where a Good Samaritan can be driven from his home by armed intruders?"
This takes place in 1924...but during a time of good amicable change when a good breach existed between those fervent for a brighter destiny and those who wanted to say their genocide hold on a past.
As described by Mycroft, "...as we no doubt listened even in unfamiliar parts, there was amazement and shrill doom-saying on all sides: The Socialists were approaching to move a finish of a monarchy, a investiture of rubles as a silver of a realm, a drop of matrimony and family, and dangerously insinuate domestic and mercantile ties with a Bolsheviks. Eight months later, a misfortune of a country's fears have nonetheless to be realized, and MacDonald has astounded everybody by being reduction of a firebrand than a encampment greengrocer."
Again, a story is a thing in "The God of a Hives" - and it is a smashing one. we enjoyed this book immensely and my usually bewail is that we finished it too fast and now contingency wait again for another smashing story of Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes.
27 of 29 people found a following examination helpful.
"We had tiny some-more than twelve hours to arrange a foolproof devise to save a life, and an empire."
By K. M.
The God of a Hive: A novel of torment featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes takes adult accurately where Laurie R. King's final Russell/Holmes novel, The Language of Bees (Mary Russell Novels), left off. On a run from a law, Sherlock Holmes, with a bleeding immature man, takes off in one direction, and over open water, while Mary Russell climbs hills on a opposite heading, fearing she is being followed by a same insane they had all only confronted. Mary is not alone as she tries to get behind to a tiny aeroplane that brought her to a Orkney islands; she is carrying three-and-a-half-year-old Estelle. Holmes, after snatching adult a alloy to provide Damian, his assign and some-more to him than only that, decides to hole adult in Amsterdam. Mary, meanwhile, aims to get behind to London, nonetheless she, Estelle, and a plane's commander are forced to take a detour, environment them on a collision march (pun intended) with a scarcely brownie hermit/"fool" who goes by a moniker Robert Goodman.
For many of THE GOD OF THE HIVE, Holmes and Russell are distant and promulgate really sparingly. All a while, Mycroft Holmes is also being threatened. He's kidnapped by a murky chairman who apparently is a higher of a insane from whom Damian and Estelle had been rescued. This new knave is, like Mycroft, partial of British intelligence. Unlike Mycroft, he considers his chronicle of inhabitant confidence as motive for extort and murder. And that leads to what Mary mournfully decides is a universe that's "a reduction secure, reduction blessedly engaging place" and "an age of a genocide of gods."
Ultimately, after many chasing around and personification censor and seek, many of a heading characters intersect for a dramatic, moving showdown.
King writes assured, fast-paced chapters that enclose some easily-guessed tract points nonetheless as many or some-more twists. Some brief observations:
-- Although Holmes and Russell togetherness -- with their rational couples communication featuring tartness, perceptiveness, and delightful, discerning wit -- is some-more beguiling reading, we was not wearied following their particular adventures.
-- Having so many of Mycroft done me skip Dr. Watson less.
-- The thinly-drawn criminal could have perceived some-more attention.
-- And as for Goodman, he reminded me rather of Erasmus, an progressing pretension impression of King's from a Kate Martinelli military mystery, To Play a Fool.
And who precisely is a pretension impression of THE GOD OF THE HIVE? Ah. Burn by this latest revisit with Mary Russell and her some-more famous husband, Sherlock Holmes, and find out! 4.5 stars.
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