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A review by mazza57
The Hemlock Cure by Joanne Burn
4.0
I received an ARC of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. The narrative uses historical fact to weave an historical fiction around the lives of some of the villagers of Eyam Derbyshire in the time of the 17th Century plague. The main Character is Mae, a girl of 15 or 16 who lives with her father, a religious bigot and frightening man with a history of crime only to be imagined, who believes her a witch and is attempting to manage her death.
The narrative is pacy and full of, at first, unidentified threat. That threat tremors under the narrative line and kept me immersed in the story line. I did however feel that it took longer to build than I expected and that the end came and went almost too quickly. ely a good read for me and i would be drawn to other books by this author
This was definit
The narrative is pacy and full of, at first, unidentified threat. That threat tremors under the narrative line and kept me immersed in the story line. I did however feel that it took longer to build than I expected and that the end came and went almost too quickly. ely a good read for me and i would be drawn to other books by this author
This was definit