Great read! You continue to make compelling cases for why I need to read this series. I love this idea of Sherlock and Moriarty being equally likable. As a Sherlock Holmes stan (in particular RDJ's Sherlock Holmes), his complexities are so much fun to explore and it would only make sense that Moriarty has just as many layers. Of course, in movies we only get a small snippet of any sort of complexity, so it's often unsatisfying, but it sounds like this is the Moriarty I've been looking for.
You must let me know what you think when you do get around to reading it! There's a big emphasis in other adaptations of Sherlock and Moriarty being quite cold, unfeeling people, or at least people who struggle to connect with other humans (Cumberbatch's Sherlock calls himself a 'high functioning sociopath' for example) so it was so unexpected and refreshing to have such warm, likeable characters who were easy to connect with... yet aren't diminished in their impressiveness in any way at all.
I live the RDJ version of Sherlock too! Those films are a really fun take on the stories. Big fan of Jude Law as Watson... he and RDJ have great chemistry on screen.
Great read! You continue to make compelling cases for why I need to read this series. I love this idea of Sherlock and Moriarty being equally likable. As a Sherlock Holmes stan (in particular RDJ's Sherlock Holmes), his complexities are so much fun to explore and it would only make sense that Moriarty has just as many layers. Of course, in movies we only get a small snippet of any sort of complexity, so it's often unsatisfying, but it sounds like this is the Moriarty I've been looking for.
You must let me know what you think when you do get around to reading it! There's a big emphasis in other adaptations of Sherlock and Moriarty being quite cold, unfeeling people, or at least people who struggle to connect with other humans (Cumberbatch's Sherlock calls himself a 'high functioning sociopath' for example) so it was so unexpected and refreshing to have such warm, likeable characters who were easy to connect with... yet aren't diminished in their impressiveness in any way at all.
I live the RDJ version of Sherlock too! Those films are a really fun take on the stories. Big fan of Jude Law as Watson... he and RDJ have great chemistry on screen.