Let me preface my review by stating the truth: Lord Likely is the man every other man wishes they could be. He is a gentleman, an aristocrat, a kicker of beggars. He is Sherlock Holmes, if Sherlock Holmes had a sense of style and a great deal more opium.
It should be obvious that this one is not for the children. Make sure they are well outside the room before clicking, as the sheer power and astonishingness will overwhelm the unprepared.
Anyway, on to the site. From top to bottom, from the first picture you see, to the copyright notice at the bottom, it reeks of style and wit. It’s not all just good looks, either.
The character himself is well defined and interesting. It’s practically impossible to stop reading once you start. His arrogance and self love is so hilariously over the top, that you cannot help but wonder what he’ll do next.
But, of course, considering the subject matter, it’s not going to appeal to everyone. The humor is crude and not very subtle. Still, the description gives you a pretty good idea of what to expect within.
So, in the end, I must heartily recommend it!
Toodle-pip!
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What a scream. I was expecting a sort of Bulldog Drummond meets Bernie Wooster thing here, but my first glance showed me a name I revere in fiction . . . Harry Flashman.
You don’t get much better reference to Victorian Englande than that, and Flashman (and his much lamented creator George MacDonald Frazer) certainly revelled in the sort of fraud and fooforaw this work unabashedly lays on. A rich hasty-pudding of stiff upper lip and loose translation.
The only bone I would pick with this is that the diction lapses a lot. Flashman wouldn’t say, "Um" and in general the characters lapse into speech more like 21st century television than Victorian gentry/knavery.
But it’s a lot of fun.
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