Book Synopsis:
I just got sacked. I’m permanently drunk. I have cancer. I’m inescapably gay. I was hit by a bus. And, incidentally, I’ve fallen in love with a stranger whose life I saved.
My name is Andrew Thomas, newly-unemployed Sherlock Holmes scholar, and I don’t know how to do any of this.
I know only Holmes can help me untangle this madness, and he isn’t real. Except he absolutely appeared in my house, told me I’m in love with a man I just met, and then in a fit of pique I sent him away.
Maybe he’s a hallucination or a specter or a ghost (pick one?), but now I desperately need Holmes’ help.
So to find the answer to my case and the man of my dreams, I’m chasing a fictional character through London with my very own Watson (hi Mina).
Business as usual.
My Review:
A Case Of Madness is an original, heartwarming and slightly quirky read from a new author for me.
Firstly I absolutely loved Andrew and enjoyed following him throughout the book. He’s the kind of person I’d love to be friends with in real life as he’s such a lovable character. He’s got a lot of stuff happening in his life but is always there for his friends and willing to stand up for what he believes in.
The book covers a range of LBGTQ topics that I found fascinating to learn more about. It was shocking at times to realise what the community has to deal with and it’s definitely opened my eyes to the problems or prejudice that the LBGTQ community face.
I thought this book was very fast paced and there always seemed to be something happening to keep me reading. I really enjoyed following Andrew and his best friend Mina through London with some of their exploits making me laugh out loud. The ending was beautiful and hints at a possible sequel which I’m excited about as I’d love to spend more time with the characters.
Huge thanks to Kelly from Love Book Tours for my copy of this book and to the publisher for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
Yvonne is a bi and nonbinary writer who dedicates their free time to extending the secret Gay Agenda – in part through their debut novel A Case of Madness.
Although born and raised in the north of Germany, Yvonne’s passion for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who, their sassy humor, and aversion to talking on public transport made them suspiciously British from early on.
As a natural matter of cause and effect, Yvonne moved to London in 2014 and started to write (a novel for the drawer). No word was written until 2017 when the sudden question of ‘What if I could talk to Sherlock Holmes?’ came up to them.
Conducting PhD research in the world’s most extensive Sherlock Holmes collection, located in Minneapolis, USA, was a great help for answering that question. The result was not a PhD, but their debut novel A Case of Madness, originally written in German and in a bold move translated by the author themselves when nobody in Germany understood a word they were saying.
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Topicalo subjects here. Should be a seller.
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