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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Hiding from the editor? This is the third book by Erskine that I have read, and I have to say it left me very disappointed and feeling that my love of her books may have come to an end. And this is because I found HIDING FROM THE LIGHT to be very formulaic and very repetitive. As with all of her books, the story goes back and forth from the present day to one is history - in this case the time of Cromwell. While this is not a bad thing on its own, what I found to be annoying after a while was how short the chapters were - they... more info
Tosh I had to review this, despite the many reviews it's got already, because it exasperated me so much. It's mind-candy. It's quite good quality mind-candy, but there's not much nourishment to be had from it. It never quite had me hiding under the covers, because I just couldn't believe in it all. Maybe that was because I'm pretty familiar with its setting. Now, if you're going to set a book somewhere real, shouldn't you be true to that location? Take it from me: Manningtree doesn't have a cute Georgian... more info
scary! again, I found this book difficult to put down once I'd started it. I'm quite interested in this whole period of history, and I'd heard of Matthew Hopkins, so was curious to see how Barbara Erskine would treat him as a character in her books. Sometimes the plot would switch from present to past and I found it difficult in places to keep up, but managed to catch up eventually. Quite a dark plot and unlike her other books but all the same I really enjoyed it.
do not read alone This book was quite scary and as i was alone i found it very spookie, in a nice way, life suspended, nothing got done, i could not put it down, sheer escapism.
