The Revenge of Moriarty: Sherlock Holmes' Nemsis Lives Again Hardcover – December 12, 2012

I enjoyed the expansion of the Crow character and the insight of the Moriarity character

Pretty good read. Not as good as the originals however.

Although this was a little hard to get into in the beginning- it was most definitely a must read for those who enjoy Sherlock Holmes! The web of intrigue in the story line kept me reading after I kept going. I could almost place myself in London while this was taking place. Most interesting to "see" things from Moriarty's point of view.

This, the second book in the series was a poor follow up from the first book that I thought was very well done. The only reason I finished the book was the hope that it would get better, thinking of the first book, but that never happened. The plot was poor and there was no mystery to be solved. If the series continues I will find myself hard pressed to read the next installment.

The characters are very cunning and keep the pages turning. Moriarty is a master mind of crime and keeps Sherlock befuddled.

I found this book to be quite interesting and very much entertaining . Being a voracious reader of anything Holmes I like this book a lot .

My rating: 3 of 5 starsThe Revenge of Moriarty: Sherlock Holmes' Nemesis Lives Again by John Gardner is a re-release by Open Road Media/Pegasus books. I recieved a digital copy of this book from the publisher and Netgalley. I believe this book was originally published in 1975. As the title states, Moriarty is alive and well and back in London. Detective Crow and Sherlock Holmes are on the villian's list of people he seeks to destroy. As always the professor is diabolical and cunning. He hatches a complicated plan to take over as the leader of underworld crime in Europe as well as getting rid of his enemies. Each member of his gang that had branched out on his own while Moriarty was away is taught a valuable lesson as to who is really the one in charge. But, when it comes to besting Crow and Holmes, Moriarty may have met his match. The author writes this book as if it were actual events and not a novel. This is a unique approach and I felt like at times I was reading a true crime novel set back in the 1800's. I thought this was a clever way of telling the story. I have to admit though that I struggled to keep up with all the characters. Moriarty has quite an entourage and used other people to help him carry out his schemes. I also found myself a little bored at first. But, if you continue on with the book, the action picks up and through the last half of the book I was a lot more engaged.This was an interesting read if nothing else. I would recommend this book to fans of Sherlock Holmes and mystery lovers that enjoy old school detective stories. Overall I would give this one a C+.Thanks again to the publishers and Netgalley for the oppportunity to read and review this book.

I was very disappointed in this book. I liked the first book in the series because it was great at portraying a clever Moriarty who is introduced as a very likeable character, but whose evilness the reader slowly begins to realize over the course of the book. This portrays both Moriarty's intelligence and lack of morals even better, but the book was ruined by one theme that runs rampant through it: sexism.I'm not talking about period-typical sexism (although that's there, as well); unfortunately when you're a woman and a book lover you very quickly realize that every book that takes place before the late 1900s (and often even after that) contains sexism. This isn't your typical "women are the weaker of the sexes and must be treated with care" trope. There are four types of women in this book: 1) the promiscuous woman, 2) the woman who needs to know her place 3) a woman who's a combination of 1 and 2, and 4) the minor character who barely appears type of woman.The women who are powerful are powerful either because of their relationships powerful men or because they're prostitutes and/or madams. I'm not saying that powerful women just happen to have a libido. Most male characters are promiscuous, too. However, the male characters are seen as successful and powerful because of their intellect or skill set, while women are powerful because they sell or give away their bodies. There are intelligent women, but they are only powerful because they use their bodies not their minds. Even a female character who was portrayed as intelligent and superior to men by Doyle is introduced as being impoverished, traumatized by the death of her husband. She jumps at the chance to receive charity from an old acquaintance, and is so thankful she begins an affair with him. However, it is actually another character masquerading as said acquaintance. So, the strong, intelligent female character is brought low and raped (she wasn't consenting to the actual character but to who she thought he was) by a man. However, even this isn't done because of a grudge against the female character but to start gossip about Sherlock Holmes. The rape is seen as a mean trick, but more fuss is made about the effect to Holmes' reputation than about the crime against the victim.The wife of one of the main characters tries to gain prestige through socially acceptable means (inviting certain people to dinner, hiring servants to keep up appearances, etc.), she's seen as silly and above her station because her husband doesn't approve. It's portrayed as only natural that, despite not sitting her down and telling her his thoughts, her husband grows unhappy and starts an affair with the cook. He doesn't seem to feel any guilt and, when the cook later turns out to me a woman sent by Moriarty to distract and seduce him, his thoughts are only that he was duped, not that he betrayed his wife. As a matter of fact, he yells at his wife to stop trying to climb the social ladder, do what he wants to do, that he's going to bed and that she should come up and do her wifely duty by him. This incident is thought of by both him and another character as putting her in her rightful place.Females who aren't promiscuous or who aren't seen as "above their station" are barely seen or mentioned and don't seem to do anything of their own volition.I can tolerate sexism in a story. Sadly, it's a part of life and pretending, in fiction or otherwise, that it doesn't exist doesn't do anyone any favors. However, this book went beyond sexism merely existing; it seemed to condone the ill treatment of the female characters. As the book progressed, I grew sicker and sicker to my stomach. I didn't know it was possible for a sequel to be so much worse than the original book.

Betterms than expected and excellent service

Product was better than I expected and the delivery time was so prompt !