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Oct 29, 2013Bearwomyn rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Hm. A hard book to review. It took me about 2 hours to read, a novella. Well written, a nicely spun story with juicy visual jargon...An historic fiction about some of the most heinous witch burning times in 1600 England, with real characters, assigned new author-took-the-libery details. It was a tenuous time indeed...when fanatical religion cast dangerous eyes on regular folks, doing regular things...only the paranoidal suspicions in most cases lead to horrific unwarranted death. The tasty part of her story is that in several cases the witches ARE witches indeed (kinda fun) and doing very some dark and gruesome things, some driven from hate, or fear, or poverty or honest to goodness despondency. I was amazed this author could do such a rich narrative in so little time, clearly a master of words. It was a good book. I guess I am less than enthusiastic because I have read so much of this type of story and history and I did not find any new eye openers, or surprising storyline to engage me deeper. For this reader, I feel like: 'been there, done that, bought the coloring book.' HOWEVER if you are a witch-burning-story-virgin, she wrote a good one indeed and I recommend it.