The Last of August may be the last book in the series I will be reading, and here’s why. The Last of August is the second book in the Charlotte Holmes trilogy that follows the protagonist Charlotte Holmes, the great-great-great-granddaughter of the beloved Sherlock Holmes. The detective genes did not stop with Charlotte as she enlists the help of Jamie Watson, her potential love interest and the partner’s grandson of her great-great-great-grandfather, to uncover family secrets at Charlotte’s family estate in Sussex. Uncovering family secrets seems 10x easier to uncover with a partner, which is not the case in this book as Charlotte’s family’s large secrets seem to intertwine with Jamie’s on top of their unresolved relationship tension picking up from the last book. Following the two protagonists across Europe to find Charlotte’s uncle who disappeared after talking about art forgery and stealing makes this book a chase to read. This young-adult and romantic mystery novel has a good plot but is not executed very well as the writing is pretty bland and gets uninteresting fairly quickly. Towards the middle of the book was when it started to become a drag to read, but the only thing saving the book from being a ⅕ was its solid comedic side characters that brought lightness to the heavy book. Overall I wouldn’t recommend this book to read, only if you plan on reading the series and read this book for details leading into the last book.
Janine T
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