I enjoyed the slow building tension, where a number of small details were not quite… right and I was engrossed in wondering where this story was going next. I had a sense that this book started out to be a paranormal examination of how people with odd gifts can blend, or otherwise, amongst the rest of us. That said, I’m a tad conflicted about this one. This book starts slowly and steadily gains momentum so that by the time Gilly is confronted by the threat facing her, I was thoroughly rooting for her. I’ve tweaked the blurting blurb somewhat, as it seems a shame in a relatively short book to have too many plotpoints spoiled in advance. And not everyone who initially greets her is as friendly as they seem… However, as she finds out, this is no normal community, and worries quickly present themselves. When the child becomes a young woman, she moves to Thornyhold where she is thought by the local community to be a witch. The story is about a lonely child who is made to see the world through her cousin’s unusual eyes. Would it still hold and enthral me as her wonderful children’s book The Little Broomstick has done?
This is book was published in 1988 and in some ways its age shows.
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