Enola Holmes FTW! It's tough to work new characters into the Holmes canon, but Enola is a marvelous addition. The mystery and the cipher puzzles were age-appropriate for the intended book audience, and the story will also entertain grownups.

A slow start, but I'm glad I stuck with it. Once the initial setup was over, it was an entertaining story with an enjoyable narrator. The audio version was well-done with good voicework, and helped me stick with it past the not so impressive beginning.

I greatly enjoyed the fiesty narrator, ciphers, family interactions and mystery. With the way the book ended though, I'm not as sure that I will like where the series goes, so I'll have to reserve judgement for at least one more volume.

Read this with my 11 year old. A fun read.

I actually enjoyed this book! Enola Holmes has character for sure!

An amazing series that I can never recommend enough; definitely recommend for a middle-school to early teen reader as it does talk about prostitution, death because of poverty and basically the mess of problems that existed in early London. Nevertheless, I can't say how empowered I felt as a young reader, reading about a girl who runs away to search for her mother because she isn't heard by her brothers. Enola is clever and resourceful and she only becomes more so as the series continues.

What a cool idea! Enola Holmes is Sherlock's younger sister. She's clever, defiant, and courageous. When her mother disappears, it's up to Enola to try to figure out what happened. Along the way, she stumbles across another missing person case, and solves that one too!

I loved the setting, and the zesty British style. Enola is my kind of character. She questions and defies the "accepted" roles, and gains a lot of confidence along the way. This is the first book in a series of mysteries. Sherlock has a cameo in the story, but it's really all about her.

The back of the book lists it as for ages 8+. My only caution is that the start of the book jumps into the seedier side of London in the late 1800s. She passes by a "lady of the night", and the author uses the term "prostitute". There is no discussion of what it means (in fact, Enola mentions that she doesn't even really know what it is), and my guess is that it would just fly by any elementary kid without them really noticing it. At worst, they may ask about the term. I'd be okay with my son (9) reading the book - but just wanted to put that out there.