The Obsidian Dagger by Catherine Webb

I was looking forward to this book and the back cover made me believe I was in for a rare old treat. The book is set in the Victorian era and the characters are battling dark inhuman forces. The lead Character Horatio Lyle is a mix of Sherlock Holmes and a slightly distracter professorial type. I was disappointed I have to admit though as I felt the book did at times lose the plot and the description of the characters was very in depth one minute and the next they were glossed over. there did not seem to be much consistency. The story was reasonable and the plot good however I felt the book lacked depth and I was never very sure about what the real issue was. This is the second installment of Horatio Lyle's adventures and I wish I had read the first book before this as I a sure it would have made more sense. I give this 6/10. I will not be rushing back to this series.

JB

The Obsidian Dagger was a really good book. It was about this detective who was looking after two children named Tess and Thomas. His boss, Lord Lincoln, then made him go onto a case where two people had been murdered on a boat by someone or something. The book is set in the Victorian age when the fist chemicals were being found so he used a lot of them in the story. The book at times did drift away from the plot and the description went into so much depth that it was hard to understand it all together. I think one problem was that I hadn't read the first book as this was the second book in the series. I give this book 7/10 as as I said it did get hard to understand at times although overall I thought it was quite a good book.

MB