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"Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found-but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting. When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it's an opportunity to start over with her three daughters-Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. When two of her daughters go missing, she's frantic. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed. Twenty-two years later, Luna has been searching for her missing sisters and mother. When she receives a call about her youngest sister, Clover, she's initially ecstatic. Clover is the sister she remembers-except she's still seven years old, the age she was when she vanished. Luna is worried Clover is a wildling. Luna has few memories of her time on the island, but she'll have to return to find the truth of what happened to her family. But she doesn't realize just how much the truth will change her"--… (más)
I found parts of this story slow moving and my mind wandered while reading theses sections. Once I got further into the story, the pace picked up and I found myself more engaged with the characters and what was going to happen to them next.
I will definitely look for more of C.J. Cooke's work in the future.
another of the edgar award nominess. Definitely more firmly in the fantasy/horror genre than mystery a fun and well constructed story. I wish the author had spent more time on working out some of the harder to swallow details. I'm perfectly willing to acceot the supernatural basis for the story, which I won't reveal here, but that the police would release a lost child to someone in the way featured in the book is harder to swallow than witchcraft and ghosts etc. Explain it waay as some weird computer glitch or a fire where the recordws were kept or something. That is just nitpicking though, overall some enjoyable characterizations, uncomfortable but perhaps realistic family dynamics and a cautionary tale for teenage girls , the scariest thing in the book is the teen boyfriend , in my opinion ( )
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A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins. --William Shakespeare, 'The Winter's Tale'
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. --Voltaire
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For Amy Hyndman (d. 1662), and all witches, past, future, and present
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They bind our feet and ankles, tear off our clothes, and douse us with alcohol.
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"Take those out first," she tells him, watching as he stretches his little hands to the old, droop-headed roses with the browning petals, replacing them with the new.
"Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found-but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting. When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it's an opportunity to start over with her three daughters-Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. When two of her daughters go missing, she's frantic. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed. Twenty-two years later, Luna has been searching for her missing sisters and mother. When she receives a call about her youngest sister, Clover, she's initially ecstatic. Clover is the sister she remembers-except she's still seven years old, the age she was when she vanished. Luna is worried Clover is a wildling. Luna has few memories of her time on the island, but she'll have to return to find the truth of what happened to her family. But she doesn't realize just how much the truth will change her"--
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I will definitely look for more of C.J. Cooke's work in the future.
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