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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
A load of old waffle I was so dissapointed with this book there was far to much waffle and over explaning. The story idea was good- new female vicar and her teenage daughter go off to a new parish to live in a huge old rectory they have to settle in etc, the daughter Jane is great getting up to teenage stuff and these bits make the book really good. The story centres around a 300 year old event about a priest that hung himself because he was accused of devil worship and it gets really boring when the book goes on and on about... more info
very slow at first but picks up pace at end This is very well written; easy to read but completely believable and convincing. I did find the plot very very slow for the most part but when the story did start, it was great. I liked the genre. Although, I found the story slow, I will certainly read other Merrily Watkins books.
Addictive reading I have followed the Merrily Watkins series with interest and have enjoyed every single one of them, A strange sort of heroine and so unsure of herself, but her daughter Jane and old Gomer Parry are always on hand when things go wrong. All kinds of superstitions are looked at with this series and anyone who looks this kind of thing might like books by Frances Gordon as well who takes old fairy tales and gives them a VERY modern twist
Pink Moon is gonna get ye all Rickman seduces you into his sleepy, pastoral village of Ledwardine with promises of home brewed cider and fairies at the bottom of the orchard. Only when it's too late for the reader/listener to catch the last bus home does he scratch away the surface to reveal the sordid underbelly of English country life doused in incest, blood-feuds, rape and murder.
This, the first of the Merrily Watkins procedurals is a ghost story wrapped inside a mystery and bound tightly together with the twine of dark... more info
