![]() ![]() ![]() Somehow it has taken you so long to realise this that it has become to embarrassing to admit it now…īecause this is possibly the problem I had with this book: it wasn’t The Mercies and did not have power, the bleakness, the vitality of that book despite – or perhaps emphasised by – its superficial similarities. Whilst you are talking about Stacey Halls’ The Familiars, she is talking about Kiran Millwood Hargraves’ The Mercies. As your colleague raves, you wonder what it is that you missed in your book because whlist you were not hating it, it wasn’t anything like as good as your friend is saying. ![]() You ask her about it and she says “It’s set in the seventeenth century,” and you think back to your book which is also set in the seventeenth century, “and based on a real event,” as is yours, “and centres around a witchcraft trial,” which yours does. It is apparently wonderful, so heartbreaking, full of wonderful description. “If the Devil is poverty, and hunger, and grief, then yes, I think they know the Devil.”īefore I begin this review, imagine the following scene.Ī colleague who generally shares similar tastes to you in reading comes up to you and starts to rave about her current read. ![]()
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