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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.
Die Handlung an sich baut langsam an Spannung auf und grade gegen Ende wird es äußerst brenzlig. Die Aufklärung fand ich ein bisschen weit hergeholt, hat sich aber gut im Rahmen der Geschichte eingefügt. Morey, Anne; Nelson, Claudia (2012). "The Secret Sharer: The Child in Neo-Victorian Fiction". Neo-Victorian Studies. 5 (1): 1–13. a b c Simmons, Tony (2019-08-13). " 'Stranger Things' star Millie Bobby Brown shooting film based on Bonifay author's novels". Panama City News Herald . Retrieved 2020-09-27. a b Bhattacharya, Suryasarathi (2020-09-23). "Enola Holmes author Nancy Springer on her popular mystery series and the Netflix adaptation". Firstpost . Retrieved 2020-09-27. The villain has no reason to do what he does (kidnap the girl, all that) other than that he wants power. That's the only reason he garrottes Enola. And that's why he goes out of his way to kidnap a girl who is sure to be searched for because she's important. Like... if he wants power he could just as easily have hypnotized some rando... This guy is not smart.I would have preferred a bit of variety in the mysteries. All three dealt with missing persons, and even the overarching mystery is about Enola’s missing mother. Though the resolutions were quite distinct, it still felt a bit repetitive after a while. Ich finde diese Reihe echt außergewöhnlich, weil sie für das empfohlene Lesealter wirklich anspruchsvoll geschrieben ist. Die gesellschaftlichen Umstände Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts werden gekonnt in die Handlung mit eingeflochten und durch viele kleine Details bekommt man die Denkweise der Gesellschaft und die gravierenden Missstände mit, die zwischen Ober- und Unterschicht herrschen. 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? This book collects the first three graphic novels of the first three original novels in this series, and I had to work out whether that was because they were wonderful, or because Netflix, or because they were, well, cheap to reprint. It took some years before these came out in the original French, so was the source that great, when they didn't seem as urgently produced as some books you'd care to think of? Well, the first story is slightly ungainly, in that it has to set the scene and build the world, and then divert to a completely different case. Enola is abandoned on her birthday by her mother, so sends for her older brothers, long absent from the household, to work out why. They fail but she still aspires to follow in their brainbox ways and solve the case for herself – all until she learns of a missing aristocratic lad, that is.
Remember Enola being all like "I'm not religious cause I read Darwin and I'm smart"? And how the book has told us time and again that spirtual stuff is nonsense? Yeah, forget that, the villain hypnotises their victims. That's literally how he does his crimes.
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Also, the LOVELY dynamic between Cecily and Enola that I WOULD DIE FOR is practically...nonexistent in this version. And I mean I get it, it's a watered-down illustrated version, and much of the Enola/Cecily dynamic actually goes on within Enola's head (trust me, it's not as creepy as it sounds)(it's only a little creepy)(which in case you're wondering, I completely stan), and while in the book her and Cecily spend little time together, there's always the hope and possibility of their friendship in the future. But, as this was only a summary of a much superior book, much of that was cut. The story development is quite abrupt at times. For instance, when Enola first leaves her house, it is only to find her mother. Why then would she abandon that search midway and go looking for another missing boy instead? It seemed silly. The story itself is somewhat similar as well - this time it’s the daughter (not son) of an aristocratic family who disappeared and Enola bumbling investigates. Neither the investigation nor its outcome were very interesting to read for me and don’t get me started on “mesmerism”...
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Of course, since I watched the movie first, I compared the first book to the movie. I can assure you that the case is a lot more complicated and impressive in the movie. However, in this second book I wasn't sure what to expect, since the movie didn't capture this. And since I was expecting more of a Middle Grade than a Young Adult I was actually quite positively surprised by this second book. Because this was certainly a lot more serious than the first book! Ultimately, I thought this was a beautifully-illustrated graphic novel that serves as a nice introduction to the series, if not a perfect substitute. Enola’s life by no means is a picnic. She faces a lot of dangers on her own continuously and it is difficult not to admire her courage or forgive her for an ocassional lapse where she craves genuine friendship with someone. The most unusual and yet the most common thing that she yearns for still remains her independence though:
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