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Yes, there are ghosties and beasties and things that go bump in the night! What fun! Safe to read at home, but if I was staying at a hotel/home/building that was reputed to be haunted, I'd save this one for later. It took a good couple of hundred pages to set the scenes and the characters, but then things took off and I couldn't put the book down. In some ways I can see cutting some of those characters and still keep the main story, but I loved the whole book anyway. Don't let the page count det...
Hiding from the Light by Barbara Erskine is a wonderful horror story about witches, witch hunters, ghosts, lost souls, mass hysteria, religion and people with obsession. It's the best book to read before Halloween, especially this year since the calendar days in a book are in sync with this years calendar. As always, when I'm reading Ms Erskine books my inner Homer Simpson rises his head or rather his hands, ready to strangle somebody, especially the characters who are so silly or blind or gulli...
Yet another unexpected gem from Erskine! I honestly couldn’t have enjoyed this book more, I was completely drawn in right from the very beginning and couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. I love anything to do with witchcraft and witches and this story had both in spades and it was done SO well. I loved how the past and present were so interconnected and weaved such a tangled web that you can’t help but fall into.
As is Erskine's trait, she interweaves the past with the present - though not as cleverly as in previous books, in my opinion. I got frustrated with the characters and found the ending way too far-fetched. Not one of her best.
Another one from the borrow box at work...The author depended too much on stereotypes for character building, and some of the spookiness was cheesey and overdone. However, the story was liberally sprinkled with skeptics, and everything that occurred had alternate human or natural explanations. The skeptics in the story gave it a believability that it would not have had without them.This book gripped my imagination and wouldn't let go. I found myself thinking about the characters and events even
This is the story of Emma Dickson who gave up her career in order to live in a cottage on the Essex coast. Even if this house remembered her childhood, it's haunted by a witch who was prosecuted by Cromwell's Witch Finder General Matthew Hopkins. If you like to read books about ghosts and witches as well then you should read this book.
Perfect autumn reading as the suspense and frightening nightmares of a past witch hunt escalates as Halloween approaches. Barbara Erskine really knows how to weave a spell that has you warily watching for shadows as you read!
A compelling but easy read. Both positive and negative depictions of very religious characters, whether they were Church of England or witch/Wiccan/etc. That was interesting. A dark book but still a bit of fluff; perfect for the busy and stressful kind of week I’ve had. Subtracted a star because of fluff factor and the fact that 3/4 of the book’s (not small) size was comprised of combinations of characters running around and having “scenes” and having half-conversations. “I really need to talk t...
Good book from Barbara Erskine - I have probably read it before as I have read most of her books, but couldn't remember it so that was fine. Took a while to get through it alas, don't seem to have as much time to read these days! This one is all about witchcraft and ghosts dating back to the 17th century when witch hunting was prevalent, especially apparently in Essex. It mixed in nicely with the present-day characters and kept you going, being quite a page-turner and quite tense in some places....
Witchcraft, haunting, eerie mist, centuries-old revenge - this book has it all! Gripping stuff that had me shivering more than a few times, great read.
This was OK - slow to get going, interesting to read the history, not as scary as I thought it was going to get (which is a good thing!)
This was a most appropriate book (even in audio form) for the season of Hallowe'en. The story takes place over the summer and fall of a year - with much of the action during the week of Hallowe'en. A business woman, tired of the rat race, sees an advertisement for a house for sale in Essex. She remembers it fondly from vacations of her childhood - it was a very charming cottage that was several hundred years old. She moves in, with her 2 cats, to the dismay of her live-in boyfriend, who does not...
I was given this book by a friend as part of a bunch which he thought I could take to my local OBCZ. This one caught my eye as it is set relatively locally to me and concerns Matthew Hopkins, notorious WitchFinder General, who is quite an interesting character. Barbara Erskine does a good job of intertwining the stories of two periods, Hopkins' own lifetime and the modern day, into one gripping narrative. It was interesting to see in the Author's Note at the back of the book that she had some in...
I have to confess I didn't finish this book. It was my first by this author and I probably won't bother again. I just fancied a light, rattle-along read and enjoy a bit of spookiness. However, I found the thing that "haunted" this book most was its repetitive and limited vocabulary. How many times can a person frown? They were frowning all over the place - sometimes more than once per page! The trouble was, once I noticed it, it really began to irritate. And when characters weren't frowning, the...
Initially I was very intrigued by this tale but by the end I found that the book really could have told the same tale just as well in fewer chapters! Also found her use of vocabulary really repetitive. Wouldn't recommend.
All of Barbara Erskine's novels (that I've read) are ghost stories, flicking between the current time and the past. Easy, addictive reads, always strong female characters and always a bit of romance.
