I am a fan of Meikle's work and was pleasantly surprised by this one. I expected it to be well written and it was. I also know that Meikle is quite a historian so I was expecting to learn a bit about Scotland, which I did. What was different was that I felt that I saw a different side of the writer in this very nice collection of Scottish flavored supernatural stories and I liked it. The stories seemed very personal, full of regret and loss, and perhaps a bit of friendly advice as well.

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