Enola Holmes 2: The Case of the Left-Handed Lady

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Had God decreed that three quarters of the populace shall live and labour in bone-skewing mind-stunting poverty, while a favoured few shall occupy their days by having their servants assist them in five changes of clothing?

About the religion thing......... Can we please stop. Just.... Stop. The villain mentions "the opiod (or opium, can't remember) of the people". Some communist leader coined this phrase. It's about religion: he said religion was useful only in that it made the masses feel good. The villain then continues speeching and takes a passage out of context from - I kid you not - All Things Bright and Beautiful to accuse God of making certain people dirt poor and others filthy rich and not caring. Enola agrees with him, thinking that even evil people can be right. So yeah. God's entire character is based off of a few lines from a hymn.This country is mad for valuing people according to their titles. Why should an idle so-called aristocrat be considered more of a gentleman than any thrifty, sober, industrious member of the working class? What the case needs is, of course, a young lady’s touch. After all, who better to look for a missing young lady than another young lady? Enola becomes interested in the disappearance of an aristocratic young lady called Lady Cecily. She visits the missing girl’s house and discovers her secret drawings featuring the poor people of London. She also interviews her friend Alexander Finch and learns that both Alexander and Cecily were sympathetic to the cause of the proletariat workmen of this world. Slowly the threads of this mystery are unravelling around Enola, but this also means she is getting dangerously close to a maniac.

When I came upon » Chapter the First«, though, I had an inkling about how this review would read because just like the ridiculous chapter titles, this is The Case of Even More of the Same that Didn’t Work for Me the First Time Either: Springer’s writing style still resembles that of a middle-grade school teacher who wants to provide material for her pupils. a b c d Montz, Amy L. (2019). "Unbinding the Victorian Girl: Corsetry and Neo-Victorian Young Adult Literature". Children's Literature Association Quarterly. 44 (1): 88–101. doi: 10.1353/chq.2019.0005. Again, as in almost every detective fiction, clues conveniently present themselves whenever Enola is around. There are too many coincidences to be believable. Growing up, I didn't have a British female lead to look up to," she shared. "I watched a lot of Hannah Montana, a lot of Wizards Of Waverly Place, a lot of Phineas And Ferb. I loved those, but I always saw boys leading it, or they were American. I like Harry Potter, but Harry Potter is the lead, not Hermione. And I thought: what kind of character can British female leads look up to? And Enola is one of them."This case involves looking for a missing girl, Lady Cecily, who appears to have runaway or possibly eloped, a possibility that is so shameful that her father and the police have tried to cover it up so as not to disgrace her family. The only person who doesn't believe it is her mother. Enola hears of the case by coincidence from her brother's dear friend, Dr. John Watson, who comes to Dr. Ragostin to get some help on another matter. What follows is a fairly dark situation involving a possible serial killer, kidnapping, and abuse. And it is very easy to see how these thoughts would be common when a small percentage of the population wore ridiculously high maintenance clothing while a big percentage served them: Springer has also stated that Enola is partially based on her own life. She herself is much younger than her two older brothers, who left for college before she reached puberty. Springer, too, had an artist for a mother, who was talented with painting watercolor flowers. Due to cancer, menopause and an early-onset form of dementia, Springer's mother spent less time with her after she turned 14 years old. Further, like Enola, Springer "was a scrawny, bony, gawky tree-climbing tomboy with hair that needed to be washed" and was "solitary and bookish." [2] Enola, posing as a detective's assistant, investigates the disappearance of Lady Cecily, an aristocrat with secrets of her own. Did she elope? Run away? Was she kidnapped?

A ver, una de las cosas que no me convencieron es ver a Enola ya establecida en Londres y sin que su juventud levantara sospechas. Recordemos que solo tiene 14 años y, por mucho que su madre la enseñara a comportarse como una adulta, es un poco raro que se desenvuelva tan bien en cualquier circunstancia. Siempre parece ser mayor de lo que es y me gustaría ver una progresión en sus logros y no que todo le saliera bien a la primera. Lol Enola tries to read Marx and legit just almost falls asleep. She calls it nonsense. Good for her. The plot is exciting. Enola is smart enough to be a fun heroine, yet fallible enough that young readers can identify with her. As a self-emancipated fourteen year old, she's living a life of adventure that's likely to appeal to tweens and teens as well. This one was good right up till there was some kind of split personality/mesmerism thing happening at the end.

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Nevertheless, not all was bad in either novel so, if you liked the first instalment in this series, you’re likely to enjoy this one just as much. Or, in my case, not that much. I read “ The Case of the Left-Handed Lady” to see if Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes series would improve with the second instalment.