Phil Rickman
Autor(a) de The Wine of Angels
About the Author
Image credit: copyright John Mason.
Séries
Obras por Phil Rickman
Merrily's Border: The Mysterious World of Merrily Watkins - History & Folklore, People & Places (2018) 6 exemplares
Merrily's Border: The Places in Herefordshire & the Marches Behind the Merrily Watkins Novels (2013) 4 exemplares
Sketches & Notes From a Bird Painter's Journal 3 exemplares
A bird-painter's sketch book 2 exemplares
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1950
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Lancashire, England, UK
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 42
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 6,184
- Popularidade
- #3,977
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 221
- ISBN
- 313
- Línguas
- 5
- Marcado como favorito
- 40
There's the element of the supernatural that makes the story a tiny bit eery, even though the cause of mayhem is always rooted in very earthbound human behavior. There's the element of setting in which I always learn something about the area. In The Cure of Souls, this element is threefold: a bit about the history of hop growing and picking, the making of guitars, and Romany (gypsy) traditions. There's the ecclesiastical element which is done with a light touch. There's the strong element of mystery which keeps readers wondering what in the world is going on, and then there's my favorite-- the element of character. I truly enjoy the characters in this book.
Merrily Watkins is a woman with a true calling. She wants to do good. She wants to help her fellow human beings. She wants to raise her teenage daughter to be a good person, and she's still not convinced that she's the right priest for the job of diocese exorcist, but she's working hard to learn as much about it as she can. She has to work hard because too many people still look at her and think, "You're the wrong sex, you're too young, you're too small."
At the beginning of this series, I couldn't stand Merrily's daughter, Jane. Jane just got right up my nose, but I'm happy to say that, as she gets older, she's begun to realize that the world doesn't revolve around her and she needs to take other people into account. She's got good instincts in this book, and it's fun to watch the evolution of her character.
I love how Rickman begins his tales with overtones of the supernatural-- Ouija boards, fortune tellers, demonic possession, ghosts-- and then turns everything inside out to show how the mystery is actually rooted in the here and now. That takes skill, and when that skill is joined with an atmospheric setting and a strong cast of characters, it turns this series into a winner.… (mais)