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Bellman & Black
by Diane Setterfield
I loved, loved, loved The Thirteenth Tale. I knew this one would be nothing like that one. And it isn't. It's not bad. It's slightly creepy, but it's a bit too vague to be super creepy. Like, you know how being vague is a way to make a story really creepy? You don't describe something entirely. You leave important pieces of information out. In this case, there's so much vague and left out that it's just not as creepy. Like, you could convince yourself that it's coincidence.
To start things off, William Bellman is an 11-year-old boy who kills a rook with a slingshot. You know. A rook. Like a crow, but a little different, apparently. Anyway, then all the rooks rooky friends come and spirit him away. The end. Only it's not.
Will becomes a fabulously efficient businessman and does a bang-up job of revitalising the mill in his little Victorian town. He gets married, starts a little family. Then it starts to fall apart as you knew it would because it is a nebulously creepy book.
Don't get me wrong. I liked it. I just won't read it every year, like I do [b:The Thirteenth Tale|40440|The Thirteenth Tale|Diane Setterfield|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1346267826s/40440.jpg|849453].
To start things off, William Bellman is an 11-year-old boy who kills a rook with a slingshot. You know. A rook. Like a crow, but a little different, apparently. Anyway, then all the rooks rooky friends come and spirit him away. The end. Only it's not.
Will becomes a fabulously efficient businessman and does a bang-up job of revitalising the mill in his little Victorian town. He gets married, starts a little family. Then it starts to fall apart as you knew it would because it is a nebulously creepy book.
Don't get me wrong. I liked it. I just won't read it every year, like I do [b:The Thirteenth Tale|40440|The Thirteenth Tale|Diane Setterfield|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1346267826s/40440.jpg|849453].