Professor Challenger: The Kew Growths and Other Stories

I can't tell you how true to the original stories these are but I can tell you they are fun and have a great sense of adventure.

Unfortunately, they are also repetitive, and if you've read the author's other work you will see the same old stuff popping up that he has most of his characters tackle. How many times do we need to stumble across a preserved lost world ecosystem!? I'm done with that.

The story the collection is named after, The Kew Growths is by far the best and nails all the characters personalities and general themes. Carnacki makes an appearance in this one and he and Challenger clash right away and it's very enjoyable.

The author loves to show off his biology knowledge and it is extremely suited to the things these two come across. After that, it still retains its fun and has all sorts of cameos and shout outs to other author's works but it definitely became tiresome by the end.

I love the time period and setting and all the nonsense the characters get into so don't think I'm too down on it... I've just read a lot of this author's work and he repeats a lot of things. It's worth a look.