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A review by rhodered
The Cure of Souls by Phil Rickman
4.0
It's a long hot summer (ok English summer which means lukewarm where I'm from, but anyway) and everyone is fighting evil in the hop fields wearing skimpy clothing (well, only the women's skimpy tops are mentioned.)
This is the first book of the series in which anyone is even a teensy bit sexy. (OK Rickman's version of sexy which means somewhat flirty where I'm from, but anyway.)
I am finally warming to Lol, who was just SUCH an outright wimp in past books that I did not see why any woman should be interested in him. He's getting a bit stronger, and apparently he actually is talented. This is also really the first book where we get several more sympathetic male characters. So yay, out of the Rickman-loathsome-men-only slump!
There's a lot about gypsies, probably well researched. And the difference between the countryside of the 1960s when rural gentry still apparently held sway vs today when they are mostly broke or written off as annoying yet inconsequential by locals. I didn't care much about either topic, but the book itself is a sweeping good read, carrying you along until you stay up far too late at night to finish it.
So, it was basically a 3, but I stuck on another star for lost sleep.
This is the first book of the series in which anyone is even a teensy bit sexy. (OK Rickman's version of sexy which means somewhat flirty where I'm from, but anyway.)
I am finally warming to Lol, who was just SUCH an outright wimp in past books that I did not see why any woman should be interested in him. He's getting a bit stronger, and apparently he actually is talented. This is also really the first book where we get several more sympathetic male characters. So yay, out of the Rickman-loathsome-men-only slump!
There's a lot about gypsies, probably well researched. And the difference between the countryside of the 1960s when rural gentry still apparently held sway vs today when they are mostly broke or written off as annoying yet inconsequential by locals. I didn't care much about either topic, but the book itself is a sweeping good read, carrying you along until you stay up far too late at night to finish it.
So, it was basically a 3, but I stuck on another star for lost sleep.