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Bellman & Black
by Diane Setterfield
I received an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley to review.
I had extremely high expectations for this book. The Thirteenth Tale is one of my favorite books. I recommend it to everyone I can think of at the library. I read it seven years ago and it still haunts me. When I read other books I think of things brought up in the book about how writers write. It literally changed how I think about books.
Bellman and Black did little except teach me about mills and rooks. If it had been advertised as such that would've been okay. It's not though. It's supposed to be a ghost story. The book does have some creepy, Gothic undertones during parts of the story. The problem is that most of the book is not about the ghost at all. It's about the protagonist and his mill. And his hatred of rooks. All of the details about running the mill and Bellman & Black were wonderfully done. The research and the way that Setterfield put everything together was fantastic. There needed to be more urgency with the ghost. He's playing the long game and so was Setterfield with the suspense.
I think that the book is worth recommending to people, but I won't mention that it's labelled as a ghost story.
I had extremely high expectations for this book. The Thirteenth Tale is one of my favorite books. I recommend it to everyone I can think of at the library. I read it seven years ago and it still haunts me. When I read other books I think of things brought up in the book about how writers write. It literally changed how I think about books.
Bellman and Black did little except teach me about mills and rooks. If it had been advertised as such that would've been okay. It's not though. It's supposed to be a ghost story. The book does have some creepy, Gothic undertones during parts of the story. The problem is that most of the book is not about the ghost at all. It's about the protagonist and his mill. And his hatred of rooks. All of the details about running the mill and Bellman & Black were wonderfully done. The research and the way that Setterfield put everything together was fantastic. There needed to be more urgency with the ghost. He's playing the long game and so was Setterfield with the suspense.
I think that the book is worth recommending to people, but I won't mention that it's labelled as a ghost story.