Nonetheless, the budding friendship between the bickering girls brings heart into this gadget-laden mystery. Some elements fall flat: The time traveler’s Nikes and “egg mick-muffins” clash with the tone, and Pix’s over-the-top guttersnipe dialect-“No’ all of ’em ’re true”-is pure distraction. Meanwhile, Mina is troubled by her attraction to the almost-as-clever-as-she-is Inspector Grayling. Between attacking villains and questioning her own prowess, elegant Evaline develops warm feelings for a common thief named Pix. Mina deduces, while Evaline (ever ladylike in her split skirts) does violence to their enemies. Along with pesky vampire slayer Evaline Stoker, Mina investigates the mysterious Society of Sekhmet. The mystery she finds is every bit as fascinating as she could have hoped: bloody murders, a secret society, even a time traveler. A vampire slayer and a great detective (-in-training) fight baddies in a steam-powered London.Īlvermina “Mina” Holmes is thrilled when she’s invited to a secret rendezvous at the British Museum she’ll finally prove herself a fitting successor to her famous uncle Sherlock.
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