The Book of Shadows
Alone among the young girls taught by nuns at a convent school in nineteenth-century France, orphaned Herculine has neither wealth nor social connections. When she's accused of being a witch, the shy student is locked up with no hope of escape ... until her rescue by a real witch, the beautiful,...
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Alone among the young girls taught by nuns at a convent school in nineteenth-century France, orphaned Herculine has neither wealth nor social connections. When she's accused of being a witch, the shy student is locked up with no hope of escape ... until her rescue by a real witch, the beautiful, mysterious Sebastiana. Swept away to the witch's manor, Herculine will enter a fantastic, erotic world to discover her true nature -- and her destiny -- in this breathtaking, darkly sensual first novel.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780061031847 (0061031844)
Publish date: December 3rd 2002
Publisher: HarperTorch
Pages no: 640
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Witches,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Horror,
France,
Gothic,
Dark Fantasy,
Supernatural
Series: Herculine (#1)
Like Rice's Interview with the Vampire, this is sensual and sexual and interweaves a subject of the horror genre--in this case witches--with well-crafted historical fiction. Set in the France of around 1830, this is mostly the first person narrative of Herculine--the very name was a hint of her natu...
Mixed feeling about this one... it had potential to be several good things. In the end, however, I feel that it pretty much missed the mark on all of them.In the "positive" column: Blasphemy! Witches! A priest-incubus! A bloody revenant! A hermaphrodite schoolgirl!In the "negative" column... a slow-...
With a story dwelling on minutiae, and cardboard characters, seemed like the author worked too hard to pull in the gory, the gothic, and the erotic. Didn't work for me. Life's too short to read bad books, so this went on the 'discard' pile.
With a story dwelling on minutiae, and cardboard characters, seemed like the author worked too hard to pull in the gory, the gothic, and the erotic. Didn't work for me. Life's too short to read bad books, so this went on the 'discard' pile.
Enjoyable, but not wholly satisfying. Left too many unanswered questions and plot holes that needed to be flushed out more. And the ending? Hello Titanic...NO. I know this is supposed to be fantastical, but come on...let's add a little reality, huh?
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