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Rosemary Edghill
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Pages: 448 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0312867689
Pub: Saint Martin's Press Inc.
Pub date: 1998-10
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 434123
Reader Reviews:
Don't be fooled! (6/6 people found this helpful)
Nowhere on Amazon's page does it say that this is really just "Speak Daggers to Her," "Book of Moons," and "The Bowl of Night," all combined into one book. Only buy this if you don't have any of them already.
Compelling mysteries with wonderful characters. (1/1 people found this helpful)
This volume gives us three books in one, each featuring Bast, a modern Witch from New York. She's a wonderful character - intelligent, real, spiritual, down to earth - breaking many cliches, both of the genre and the real world. The books give an interesting insight into Wicca and the N.Y. Neo-Pagan community without ever being preachy; Bast's lifestyle and religion is integrated into the stories without ever being an excuse to slip around plot points. There's no supernatural solution, no cheats, but Bast's beliefs and Goddess are always there in the background, part of her life. The mysteries themselves are also well plotted, and the rest of the characters well drawn. The only reason I give this book 4 stars rather than 5 is that I guessed "whodunnit" (or why) rather too early... but perhaps those not involved in Wicca or the occult would have less of a clue!
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