A Scandal in Battersea – Mercedes Lackey

It’s twelve books into the Elemental Magic series, which started with fairy tale retellings, and eventually branched into Sherlock Holmes, and has now brought in Cthulu.

If you’re at all familiar with Lovecraft, you have a pretty good idea of what takes place in this book, but it’s so much fun to see how Lackey brings in all the elements (ha!) she’s worked into this series so far with this latest version of the story. It does crack me up that Sherlock Holmes is on the cover, even though he doesn’t have that much to do comparatively with this story – it’s more of Dr. and Mrs. Watson with our old friends Sarah and Nan.

Again, can’t say the story is necessarily a surprise – there are conventions to follow, after all – but it’s a fun read to see how it gets to where it needs to go.