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A review by trish204
The Lights Go Out in Lychford by Paul Cornell
4.0
Well, OF COURSE all the stories warning us about what to wish for (and how) weren't written without there being a reason!
Judith is getting worse. The dementia has reached a point where she had to hand over the mantle to Autumn already. So she is the hedge witch / wise woman of Lychford now.
As usual, something weird is happening in the little town. It must have something to do with a festival that is to take place soon so Autumn and Lizzy go investigate. Finding the being responsible isn't the problem ... finding a solution is. Especially without Judith's knowledge and experience.
Add to that the fact that despite what we had been told at the end of the previous volume, the faeries aren't actually the problem. Something/someone is smart enough to simply pit their species against the humans so they can then move in when we have taken each other out. And the end of human reality might be closer than anyone had expected.
Oh, and one of the Kardashians might have been killed in here to fulfill a wish. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I knew there'd only be 5 books but how and how quickly the shit hit the fan was still a bit of a surprise. It was also astonishingly easy. Of course, that is not entirely true - it took several steps, most of which have to do with the events from the previous books (interwoven in a pretty nice way to come together in a knot now).
Reading about Judith still was the hardest. Not only but also because I've seen relatives go down the dementia path and it isn't pretty. The author had a very nice and realistic way of describing it with magical terms sometimes.
But I liked Autumn coming into her own and learning as she went, learning the hard way (she deserved that sometimes), but also some of her "new" approaches to problems.
Only one more story to go - the big conflic/resolution - and I'll continue right away.
Judith is getting worse. The dementia has reached a point where she had to hand over the mantle to Autumn already. So she is the hedge witch / wise woman of Lychford now.
As usual, something weird is happening in the little town. It must have something to do with a festival that is to take place soon so Autumn and Lizzy go investigate. Finding the being responsible isn't the problem ... finding a solution is. Especially without Judith's knowledge and experience.
Add to that the fact that despite what we had been told at the end of the previous volume, the faeries aren't actually the problem. Something/someone is smart enough to simply pit their species against the humans so they can then move in when we have taken each other out. And the end of human reality might be closer than anyone had expected.
Oh, and one of the Kardashians might have been killed in here to fulfill a wish. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I knew there'd only be 5 books but how and how quickly the shit hit the fan was still a bit of a surprise. It was also astonishingly easy. Of course, that is not entirely true - it took several steps, most of which have to do with the events from the previous books (interwoven in a pretty nice way to come together in a knot now).
Reading about Judith still was the hardest. Not only but also because I've seen relatives go down the dementia path and it isn't pretty. The author had a very nice and realistic way of describing it with magical terms sometimes.
But I liked Autumn coming into her own and learning as she went, learning the hard way (she deserved that sometimes), but also some of her "new" approaches to problems.
Only one more story to go - the big conflic/resolution - and I'll continue right away.