donnawr1 's review for:

The Witchfinder's Sister by Beth Underdown

5.0

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I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this book. It was extremely well written, and Beth Underdown's vivid, but not excessive, details really enhanced the reading. The story, although based on the real figure of a witch hunter in England in the 1640s, was not predictable and so it moved along. She sets up the narrator as locked in an attic in the first chapter, and that helps to keep some suspense throughout the novel. The characters are believable, and the narrator sounds like a person of the time period, not someone who was placed from our century into that one as can often happen in historical novels. I like what the author did with the the witchfinder's character and motivations and that of the townspeople that helped in the accusations and trials. It is a good story about how evil can be condoned by a large group of people.