It is not my practice to review Sherlockian fiction of such a specialized nature, however, I purchased this book because I collect Sherlockian pastiches and felt I needed to add the stories to my database. I made the mistake of reading the first and was caught in a carefully devised trap. The editor must have given very careful directions to the contributors, for I found very little here of a sexual nature. Instead, I found earnest and thoughtful fiction that concentrated on the problems caused

One of the best volumes of Sherlock Holmes short stories I have read in a long time.The stories all have an interesting take on the world of Sherlock Holmes. Every story has a gay component to it. Sometimes it is Holmes who is gay, sometimes it is the client, or the victim, and in one story, Lestrade.I found the stories all to be interesting and insightful into life for people who were criminals merely for the fact they existed, whether or not they acted upon their sexual orientation.It is rare

Not bad, all around. There were a few stories that I found especially well done, but overall it struck me as rather mediocre. I actually enjoyed the forward more than several of the stories. There were several stories that had very little to do with Holmes and Watson but instead focused very intensely on the clients. That said, The Bride and the Bachelors and The Adventure of the Hidden Lane were both very interesting approaches to Holmes' sexuality and how it affected his relationship with Wats...

I found this to be a hugely mixed bag.About half the stories in this collection are basically serviceable; a lot of them sort of end up running into each other, riffing on similar themes over and over, often adhering to a specific set of tropes. A couple of them are then very good, with more interesting set ups and good prose. I got this book cheaply, and consider it to have been worth the cost for those stories I enjoyed.There are also a couple that I found distinctly uncomfortable and to play

I'm always pleasantly surprised when I find an anthology that is actually good and this one did not disappoint! I think what made it work is 1. the excellent theme and 2. the stories all being different. It wasn't just a book full of stories about Holmes and Watson as a couple - although there are a few of those of course. There were also stories featuring Mycroft, Lestrade, various clients, and even one from the villains POV [although sadly no Moriarty]. I would definitely recommend this to any...

A nice array of stories in the familiar Holmesian universe, but with The Gay added. I enjoyed the whole thing!

Review to be posted at This Tangled Skein.

The stories:The Adventure of the Bloody Coins: A story in which Mycroft is a suspect and Holmes helps him. Somehow too short too say much about it. Occassionally with short-stories I have the feeling to read a first draft and not a completed story and this was one of these cases. The crime got solved pretty quickly and everything seemed a bit superficial. That's a shame because I think if it had been a bit longer and the relationship between Sherlock and Mycroft had gotten more depth I would hav...

I liked most of the stories.

This was the best collection of pastiches i've read so far! i appreciated that they were pg or pg-13. not all of the stories features holmes/watson, and i really liked how the different authors interpreted and brought in lgbtq+ themes in their works. that said, a lot of them still frustrated me either because of the characterization or tropes/clichés in the supporting characters. also, ther short intros before every story were kind of redundant and in some cases, kind of spoiled what was to come...

I enjoyed this anthology, though a few of the stories did suffer from the Watson isn't terribly smart/completely oblivious problem. I really wish the final story had continued because it ends on a frustratingly ambiguous note. Many of the stories were actually quite sweet and the couple involved was not Watson/Holmes. The beginning section lays out some evidence that suggests Holmes may have been canonically gay. It's interesting. I'm not sure I totally buy it but interesting nonetheless.

The quality of the stories vary somewhat, although I'm such a big Holmes fan that most of the time the writing has to be pretty terrible for me to not find something to enjoy in a story starring （or really just featuring） Holmes and Watson. This is basically Archive of Our Own in book form, and I mean that in the best way possible--there are zillions of incredibly talented authors on that website who deserve to be published.

My favourites in this anthology where The Case of the Wounded Heart and The Adventure of the Hidden LaneThe editor/writers choose/wrote stories which adhered well to the Sherlock canon. I got the feel of the pervading atmosphere of those times. There was some repetition regarding backgrounds as each writer wrote that it and so the reader gets to read this multiple times. The Adventure of the Bloody Coins -Stephen OsborneThe Case of the Wounded Heart -Rajan KhannaThe Kidnapping of Alice Braddon -...

A Study in Lavender takes Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and other characters, both from the Holmes stories, like Inspector LeStrade, and those of reality, like the mystery author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and turns it on its head, choosing to have Gay characters or storylines integrated into the Holmes' stories. I had a misconstrued perception going into this LGBT anthology of Holmes stories. I had thought it was going to be a collection of Holmes stories where Holmes and Watson took their bromance...

This anthology of tales that uncover the reality of homosexuality in the Victorian world by setting it in the Sherlock Holmes universe does it with grace, elegance and originality-no matter if it's Holmes and Watson who are shown as homosexuals,or their clients. It reflects very accurately the ambivalence of the era- when homosexuality was publicly abhorred but at the same time doctors were starting to write and talk about it and to consider whether it was an illness or not,and when homosexuals

The editors did these stories an injustice by giving it such a stupid, Tumblr-esque title and dressing it with equally bad artwork. Naturally, I had the lowest expectations but I was pleasantly surprised.Like any collection of pastiches, this one’s uneven. A few were bad, a few were good, and a few were okay. Watson will pine for Holmes or Holmes will pine for Watson in half the stories. It does get repetitive, though there is a Lestrade case, a hustler case, a lesbian case, a tranny case, and a...

That's it. I'm done. I can't finish it. I had about 10% to go and will consider it read. I'm in too much mental pain to continue. Two or three of the stories were quite good but the bad ones were so very bad, so Malebolge-eighth-circle-of hell-bad, that I refuse to give it more than 1 star. And I'll say something I've never said before and that is - how could anyone here give it 5 stars? The stories are, by and large, trite - the plots might have been serviceable thirty or forty years ago but no...

I saw this book and knew it had to be mine. I love Sherlock Holmes in all of his incarnations, and I love queer literary theory, so this seemed like a perfect book for me: Sherlock-verse. Queered. Awesome. And I read it.And it was.... Very nice. No, it was fine. It was okay. But it was just a little, forgive the adjective, flaccid. The cases were good-- engaging little stories, and the characterization was generally on and enjoyable. But the queerness was, I'm sorry to say, handled problematical...

Overall, I quite enjoyed this collection. I feel that the various authors captured the voices of Holmes & Watson well. My least favorite was "Whom God Wishes to Destroy," as I don't feel it went as well with the rest of the stories.A few notes: This book is not explicit - if you want that, there's lots of fanfiction out there, some of it very well written. This is primarily what would be called Casefic - stories about cases Sherlock Holmes and John Watson may have investigated that, for one reas...