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A review by bgg616
The Cure of Souls by Phil Rickman
4.0
I like Merrily Watkins, a young widow who is an Anglican priest. She is also an exorcist, working in the diocese's Deliverance Ministry. Even before the film The Exorcist, I was fascinated with the topic, coming across references to possession in my Catholic education.
In this novel, Merrily's daughter has come under the influence of another teen who seems to be dabbling in the supernatural. The plot quickly complicates with old mysteries - a disappeared wife, a young Romany (gypsy) woman who vanished, a haunted hop yard. The complexities of mysteries, and characters results in a nearly 600 page novel. At times, I lost track of who was who. Though everything seems to be wrapped up in some way by the end of the book, there were a few dangling threads for me. My reason for giving it 4 stars is that it is a captivating story, but overly long. I will read more of this series which I quite enjoy, particularly its imperfect heroine.
In this novel, Merrily's daughter has come under the influence of another teen who seems to be dabbling in the supernatural. The plot quickly complicates with old mysteries - a disappeared wife, a young Romany (gypsy) woman who vanished, a haunted hop yard. The complexities of mysteries, and characters results in a nearly 600 page novel. At times, I lost track of who was who. Though everything seems to be wrapped up in some way by the end of the book, there were a few dangling threads for me. My reason for giving it 4 stars is that it is a captivating story, but overly long. I will read more of this series which I quite enjoy, particularly its imperfect heroine.