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    The Last of August
    The Last of August
    The Last of August
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    The Last of August

    Written by Brittany Cavallaro

    Narrated by Graham Halstead and Julia Whelan

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    In the second brilliant, action-packed book in the Charlotte Holmes series, Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are in a chase across Europe to untangle a web of shocking truths about the Holmes and Moriarty families.

    Jamie and Charlotte are looking for a winter break reprieve in Sussex after a fall semester that almost got them killed. But nothing about their time off is proving simple, including Holmes and Watson’s growing feelings for each other.

    When Charlotte’s beloved Uncle Leander goes missing from the Holmes estate—after being oddly private about his latest assignment in a German art forgery ring—the game is afoot once again, and Charlotte throws herself into a search for answers.

    So begins a dangerous race through the gritty underground scene in Berlin and glittering art houses in Prague, where Holmes and Watson discover that this complicated case might change everything they know about their families, themselves, and each other.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKatherine Tegen Books
    Release dateFeb 14, 2017
    ISBN9780062661296
    Author

    Brittany Cavallaro

    Brittany Cavallaro is the New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Charlotte and the Charlotte Holmes novels. With Emily Henry she wrote the young adult thriller Hello Girls. Cavallaro is also the author of the poetry collections Girl-King and Unhistorical and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry. She lives in Michigan, where she teaches creative writing at Interlochen. 

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    • 4/5
      4.5 stars! It was so gooooood. Imma miss these characters!
    • 4/5
      Another amazing book in this series, capturing the young adult descendants of the famous duo with a modern twist. I am excited to listen to the rest of the series!
    • 3/5
      As someone who adored A Study in Charlotte (5 stars). I have to say, The Last of August was a bit of a disappointment for me.

      I felt that I wasn't nearly as engaged in the mystery surrounding this novel; I had to restart the book at one point as I lost focus and became confused about the sudden introduction of art theft.

      Additionally, in regards to Jamie and Charlotte's relationship, I felt that their constant bickering throughout the novel was slightly offputting as a reader.

      However, with that in mind, The Last of August got into the groove around the 50% mark, and I became more engaged in the novel's plot. I owe this fact partly to Graham Halstead and Julia Whelan's fabulous narrating.

      Overall, while I enjoyed The Last of August, In my view, it was not nearly as captivating as book #1. Although being the Sherlock nerd that I am, I am still keen to read the next instalment, "The Case For Jamie."
    • 4/5
      This book took awhile getting into , maybe it’s the volatile relationship these two have or maybe it’s the last that keeps creeping up, but I didn’t l or this tale as much as the first.
      The sad ending is true to the Holmes’ stories and that not all end happily ever after.
    • 4/5
      Jamie Watson is spending his Christmas Break with his friend Charlotte Holmes at her family home where he is seeing how totally dysfunctional her family is. The only one who seems vaguely normal is her uncle Leander who was his father's best friend and roommate while they were in college.When Leander disappears it sends Jamie and Charlotte on a hunt for him through the world of art forgery in Berlin. It also reunites Charlotte with the Moriarty who broke her heart and whose life she ruined. August has been hiding out from his family with her eccentric older brother Milo who runs a security business.This story has a really twisty plot. They are dealing with a missing uncle, Charlotte's mother being slowly poisoned, August's brother and sister Hadrian and Phillipa's art forgery scheme, and August's brother Lucien's desire to have revenge on Charlotte for what she did to August. The book is primarily narrated by Jamie who is also trying to figure out his relationship with Charlotte. They go from friendship to partners in detection to a romance to enmity in multiple variations in this story.Fans of mysteries the keep the reader guessing will enjoy this twisty story.
    • 3/5
      The series so far is mmmm, nice for a quick afternoon read!
    • 3/5
      I give this book a 3.75 which is the same thing that I gave the first book in the series. I enjoy it. It isn't really blowing me away. I like Charlotte a tiny bit more than I did in the first book, but overall I still don't really like her. I do feel for her though. I still like Jamie Watson. I think he is really sweet and totally in love with Charlotte. I did enjoy the aspect of travelling all over Europe trying to solve a case. That was pretty cool. So in this book it starts out with Jamie and Charlotte are visiting each others families in England. It is all a bit awkward, but then Charlotte's uncle disappears and her mother is poisoned. So Charlotte and Jamie trek all over Europe trying to solve this case.
    • 2/5
      First, a quote:

      When I thought of winter, I thought of those reasonable New England nights that arrived punctually just after dinner, disappearing into morning blue by the time you’d stretched awake in bed. British winter nights were different. They came on in October with a shotgun and held you hostage for the next six months.

      Guess which city has milder winters, Brighton or Boston? This quote highlights two of the issues I had with this book—Jamie is consistently complaining, and he gets things wrong in a way that feels more like sloppy writing and editing than deliberate choices that come from the character. However, my biggest issue with this book is that rape is used as the main obstacle to prevent Jamie and Charlotte from hooking up, which is kind of a cheap way of handling a serious issue.

      Two stars, one for August’s poet outfit (topped by a fauxhawk), and another star for Jamie’s fedora.
    • 3/5
      As always, I am in LOVE with the prose. Also Charlotte. And Jamie, and the two of them as a unit.

      But dear god, in this one they made their relationship WAY harder than it needed to be. There were one or two points where I was so annoyed that I literally could not keep reading, and had to put it aside for a day or two.
    • 3/5
      While I do enjoy the characters of Charlotte Holmes and Jamie Watson as well as the tension that exists between them, I did not enjoy this book as much as the first. The art, the little shabby hangouts frequented by student artists... it just wasn’t an engaging tale for me.
    • 4/5
      The Last of August picks up not too long after the events of A Study in Charlotte, with Jamie and Charlotte at her parents’ estate in Sussex for winter break. However, you can’t expect things to stay calm for long, and soon Charlotte and Jamie are whisked away to Berlin, Germany to stay with Charlotte’s brother, Milo. Now with a new mystery to solve they team up with August Moriarty, who is in fact, a descendant of that Moriarty family.

      What I enjoyed about this novel was that we got to see more of Charlotte’s family, and you really learn how she kind of became the way she is. Or at least you feel bad for her by the end of the novel. Her family dynamic is… well, it’s bad. At the same time, it’s kind of to be expected just based off what we learned about Charlotte in the first book.

      The plot was intriguing – Charlotte’s uncle goes missing and there’s an art forgery scam going on (that is linked to the other Moriarty siblings, of course). Right off the bat, after silence from Charlotte and August, Jamie finds himself annoyed with the two of them and sets off on his own with this own disguise to do some investigating. Not too long after, he’s joined by Charlotte and August and the investigation is underway. Throughout the book I feel bad for Jamie, again, because he honestly just wants Charlotte to get with the program about the “them” part of everything, but it keeps getting put off because of all the stuff going on around them… and that their lives are in danger again.

      I was kept on my toes the entire book and I wasn’t really able to catch onto what was happening like the first book, so the ending was a big surprise for me and not what I had been expecting at all. As much as I like to figure out the endings myself, I also love those surprise moments.

      Overall, yet another good new-generation Holmes and Watson book!
    • 5/5
      This series just gets better and better. This book was much darker than the first, and was full of deep and complex emotions. I literally could not stop turning the pages. I'm completely in love with these characters and this series!
    • 4/5
      This book took awhile getting into , maybe it’s the volatile relationship these two have or maybe it’s the last that keeps creeping up, but I didn’t l or this tale as much as the first.
      The sad ending is true to the Holmes’ stories and that not all end happily ever after.
    • 2/5
      All the characters in this book are submerged so much into the family pool of angst than none of them are likeable. I struggled with the first in the series but finished it. This one I gave up after 150 pages.
    • 4/5
      Uncle Leander is missing. Charlotte's mom is poisoned. What is going on with the Holmeses? Charlotte and Jamie get involved in an art forgery ring while trying to find Leander. I loved the scenes in Prague with Jamie going undercover. Charlotte felt a little too mean to Jamie, which makes it harder to believe he would choose to stay with her. And Charlotte's deductions and mastermind planning seemed a bit much towards the end. I hope the next book features more closeness between Charlotte and Jamie.
    • 4/5
      Where there is a Holmes and a Watson, there is sure to be a Moriarty. August Moriarty has tried to get out from the shadow of his family's reputation, but it seems impossible. In this second novel we get to see just how crazy the Holmes family is as Charlotte & Jamie chase an art forger across Europe in an effort to find Charlotte's uncle. There's also an underlying attraction going on for Charlotte & Jamie, but Charlotte seems incapable of letting it go anywhere. The end is a shocking twist.
    • 4/5
      This is the second book in the series about Charlotte Holmes and Jamie Watson, the descendants of Holmes and Watson. This novel picks up where the last one ended. It’s helpful to have read book one to understand how they met and what happened before, but you could read this novel on its own as well.Jamie and Charlotte are spending Christmas break together but don’t have their usual banter because something is “off.” Upon arriving at Charlotte’s house, one realizes why Charlotte is the way she is. The Holmes family is not one you’d want to belong. Leander, Charlotte’s uncle and Jamie’s father’s best friend, appears to be different. He seems somewhat like a normal person. Unfortunately, when he goes missing, another case is in Jamie and Charlotte’s lap that may be as dangerous as the first.The pair end up traveling to Germany where Leander was working on a case against the Moriarty family. The person willing to help them is August Moriarty. His and Charlotte’s relationship is discussed in book one. As they all travel about trying to figure out what’s going on with art forgeries backed by the Moriarty family and looking for Leander, they discover more about themselves, their relationship, and the secrets of both families. I really enjoy the audio of these books; they are so well performed. I can’t wait to listen to the 3rd book when it becomes available. Charlotte is a very good representation of a Holmes. If you are familiar with the difficulty of knowing and working with a Holmes, you will find these modern YA fanfic novels enjoyable. Also, in line with a good Holmes story, they are fun to read just to see if you can solve the crime with the clues given. If you like a good mystery, have at it! The ending is rather intense, so book three will be darker.
    • 2/5
      So I was super excited to get the sequel to "A Study in Charlotte". I tore through "Last of August" and was...underwhelmed. It just seemed overly complicated and the romantic but not really together relationship between Charlotte and James seemed forced and silly. Sexual tension is fun and all, but now it's to the point where it's just slightly torturous to read. The book starts out with James visiting Charlotte's family home over the holidays. Her mother is ill and her beloved uncle Leander has disappeared. Charlotte's brother Milo seems unconcerned about Leander's strange disappearance, but he agrees to help Charlotte and James try to find him. They travel to Berlin because Leander was working undercover trying to bring down an art forgery ring. James is convinced Charlotte's ex-tutor, August Moriarty, is double-crossing them somehow, he just can't prove it. As usual, Charlotte is ten steps ahead of everyone else. It was fun switching to her POV towards the end of the book, and Cavallaro does that really well, but otherwise I was disappointed. I hope the third one is better.
    • 4/5
      I liked this book, but I didn't love it as much as the first book in the series. It still had the surprise you would expect at the end of the book, the writing is good, the characters are relatable, but I just liked the first book better. I would still recommend this book though and the series, it's very intriguing and a different spin on Holmes and Watson that I adore. 4 out of 5 stars.
    • 4/5
      Not being familiar with the entire Holmes canon, I found this took a long time for me to read, as I was trying to decipher clues about the 'real' world Holmes fiction and where this story was coming from. I missed being at school with Charlotte and James/Jamie. Now, on Christmas break, they spend time with both families, ending at the Charlotte's family estate. When her uncle Leander (and clearly one of the better adults in the series) goes missing, Charlotte and her sidekick take off to Berlin. Here, we get more of a feel for her brother Milo and the dead/not dead August Moriarty. Now that the uniqueness of Holmes and Watson descendants has worn off, this veered a bit into any old book area. Maybe it was because it took me so long to read, but the whole art world saga kind of got to me. Is it all 'found' WWII art? Was it ever missing? Are they all forgeries? A lot of close reading to get to an end that I didn't find particularly satisfying. But, crabbiness aside, I will definitely tune in for the next one, I am hooked.
    • 3/5
      The Last of August is about descendants of the original Holmes and Watson, Charlotte Holmes and Jamie Watson, who met at boarding school in A Study in Charlotte.They begin spending the Christmas break with their families back in England but after Charlotte’s uncle disappears abruptly, Jamie and Charlotte head to Berlin and join forces with a Moriarty.I was instantly caught up in the story, but thought the ending was a bit too bleak and unsatisfying. I suspect this is second-in-a-trilogy syndrome: the story wants to leave enough loose ends for the next book. Which I’ll be reading, because I want to know what happens next, but for now, I’m left feeling a bit blank.The Last of August is mostly from Jamie’s perspective, with a few chapters from Charlotte’s. I disliked it when the term “fairy-tale” was bandied about. Most often it was used to men “whimsical”. This is inaccurate. In fairy tales, the forest swallows you up like a dinner. Your parents wrap you in a cloak and set you loose in the dark. Everything happens in threes, and only the oldest child survives. As a younger sister, I particularly resented that last implication.
    • 4/5
      When Jamie Watson spends Christmas break with his friend and not-so-secret crush Charlotte Holmes, he is both bemused and dismayed by her cold and dysfunctional family although it does go along way in explaining Charlotte to him. The only member of the family who seems close to normal is her favourite uncle Leander who is also a good friend of Watson’s father.So when Leander goes missing, Watson and Holmes rush off to Europe to try to find what has happened to him. On the way, they encounter August Moriarty, Charlotte’s own first crush who broke her heart. He is supposed to be dead but, in reality, has been hiding out from his larcenous and vicious family with the help of Charlotte’s brother. As they search for Leander, Watson and Holmes have their own encounters with his family drawing them into several very dangerous situations.The Last of August is the second in the Charlotte Holmes YA series by author Brittany Cavallaro. The story is narrated by Watson who seems a reliable narrator with the occasional interjection from Charlotte who seems somewhat less reliable. But they are both interesting and complex characters that are easy to like and empathize with despite or perhaps because of their flaws, especially in the case of Charlotte. Full of twists and turns and all-round mayhem, it is a whole lot of fun. It is a bit slower than the first book, A Study and Charlotte, but just as compelling and, dare I say, addicting.Thanks to Edelweiss and Harper Collins for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review