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Season of the Witch

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The Matrix meets Interview with the Vampire in this sexy gothic thriller about two beautiful witch sisters and the love triangle that consumes the information thief who is drawn into their intrigues.

Season of the Witch tells the story of Gabriel Blackstone: hacker, information thief, and skilled �remote viewer.� Asked by a former lover to investigate the disappearance of

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Published April 19th 2007 by Dutton Adult (first published 2007)

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Mar 21, 2011 rebellyell666 rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Gabriel Blackstone hat die Fähigkeit, ein Fernwahrnehmer zu sein. Heute ist er Computerhacker und hat seine Gabe weites gehend von sich gedrängt. Als eine Person aus seiner Vergangenheit ihn um Hilfe bittet, ahnt er nicht, in welchen Strudel aus Geschehnissen er sich begibt…

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Wahnsinn! Mostert schreibt ganz zu Anfang von dem siedend heißen England im Sommer und ich war direkt gefesselt von ihrer Art, den Leser an selbstverständliche als auch absonderliche Dinge heranzufü...more Inhalt:

Gabriel Blackstone hat die Fähigkeit, ein Fernwahrnehmer zu sein. Heute ist er Computerhacker und hat seine Gabe weites gehend von sich gedrängt. Als eine Person aus seiner Vergangenheit ihn um Hilfe bittet, ahnt er nicht, in welchen Strudel aus Geschehnissen er sich begibt…

Schreib-/Erzählstil:

Wahnsinn! Mostert schreibt ganz zu Anfang von dem siedend heißen England im Sommer und ich war direkt gefesselt von ihrer Art, den Leser an selbstverständliche als auch absonderliche Dinge heranzuführen. Ihre Charaktere verschmelzen mit dem Hintergrund der Welt um Gedanken und Psyche. Langsam kriecht der Horror in den Nacken des Lesers und ließ mich kurzzeitig aufschreien oder vor Verzweiflung japsen.

Meine Meinung:

Lange Zeit fesselte mich eine Erzählung so gut wie die von Mostert. Lange Zeit lag diese Lektüre bei mir ungelesen und ich bin froh, diese an einem Wochenende gelesen zu haben, an dem man richtig Zeit hat, diese auszukosten.

Die Schwestern Minnaloushe und Morrighain wirken wirklich unheimlich auf den Leser und stets fragte ich mich, was die beiden als nächstes tun würden. Immer versuchte ich, Gabriel davor zu warnen, noch mehr in die Welt der Schwestern einzutauchen, da ich um sein Leben fürchtete. Zwar steht im Vordergrund der Geschichte, den Erben eines reichen Geschäftsmannes zu finden, doch Gabriel lässt sich sosehr einlullen, dass er über die Schönheit und die Unternehmungen mit den Schwestern, sein Ziel vergisst. Dieses packende Element wies dem Leser den Weg in einen Sog von Geschehnissen. Fortwährend fragte ich mich, wer denn die Tagebuchschreiberin der beiden ist und wie man als Thrillerfan weiß, ist nie alles so, wie es der Autor einem zu verkaufen versucht.

Auch das Ende ist so gut und plastisch dargestellt, dass ich wirklich behaupten kann, es vom Grund her verstanden zu haben ohne Abstrusem oder irreführende Ausschweifungen.

Fazit:

Wer sich wirklich fallen lassen möchte, aber den Thrill eines unheimlichen Kartenhauses, das kurz vorm Zusammenbruch steht, liebt, sollte Mostert von vorne bis hinten genießen und lesen!
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Feb 25, 2009 Gail rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery, urban-fantasy

The hero is asked to look into the disappearance of a friend's stepson. He'd been hanging out with these two exotic sisters, so the hero starts hanging out with them, and weird stuff happens. I didn't care so much for this book though. It was handed to me as a romance, and it wasn't. The ending was awful, IMHO. NOT happy. And I didn't believe the falling in love, because the author wanted to be all mysterious and make the reader wonder which sister he loved, and which sister--if any--did away wi...more

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Oct 30, 2007 Gabrielle rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book was just a delicious read on so many levels: it was so purely recreational and effortless, yet it wasn't simple by any means. It was a feast for the senses - I wanted to step inside and live in it, rub the pages all over my SKIN! Mostert sure knows how to seduce the imagination without needing to resort to the obvious. It was rather like being titillated by wondering what's underneath the soft blouse instead of having bare breasts thrust in one's face.

Sensual, yes, AND cerebral! And h...more

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Aug 10, 2007 Sara rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: horrorfantasy

I was intrigued by certain aspects of this book and let down by others. The idea was great, unfortunately to get to the idea, it took 3/4 of the book. The writing itself was good, I thought, but the development of it seemed to hit a real slump in the middle of it, almost losing me. Characterization was a bit disappointing; names of the witches were predictably wierd and theatrical, making them less real, as well as some of the other non-witchy characters. This is always a pet peeve of mine, so t...more

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Sep 23, 2007 rachelle rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: a filmmaker

I really liked this book when I first started reading it. The first few chapters were fast-paced and engaging. After I was hooked, it fell on its face. The character development was lazy if not altogether lacking. (spoiler coming) I found it irritating that the author made the redhead seductive and sexy and lovable and her dark-haired sister the "bad guy". I'm SO over that. There were also a couple typos which always annoys me. It pulls me right out of the story every time.

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Aug 06, 2012 Kristen rated it 5 of 5 stars

This was an usual, but very engrossing book. It is cerebral, esoteric and very intelligently thoughtful. It's also full of suspense, mystery, drama and gothic atmosphere.

Gabriel Blackstone is a hacker and information thief extraordinaire. He lives for the thrill of finding a way past the obstacles standing between him and whatever data he has a buyer willing to pay for. He's also a "remote viewer" meaning he can drop into other people's minds and wander around to see what's going on inside their...more This was an usual, but very engrossing book. It is cerebral, esoteric and very intelligently thoughtful. It's also full of suspense, mystery, drama and gothic atmosphere.

Gabriel Blackstone is a hacker and information thief extraordinaire. He lives for the thrill of finding a way past the obstacles standing between him and whatever data he has a buyer willing to pay for. He's also a "remote viewer" meaning he can drop into other people's minds and wander around to see what's going on inside their heads. He doesn't really care about anything or anyone but himself. Or so he thinks.

Then, Frankie, his first love and the one who got away reappears in his life and begs for his help. Her new, older and wealthy husband - who is dying - is desperately searching for his son, Robert, from whom he has been estranged, but wants to reconcile with before he dies. Frankie wants Gabriel to try to find out what happened to Robert, if he's dead or alive and where he is now.

After agreeing reluctantly to help, Gabriel discovers that Robert was deeply involved with a pair of stunningly gorgeous, but very mysterious sisters - who may be involved in Robert's disappearance.

As Gabriel delves deeper into the secretive, intoxicating Monk sisters' lives, he thinks he's in control of the situation and investigating them. But he quickly becomes involved with them himself and the more he learns about them and the strange world they live in, the more he begins to lose the threads of reality, and the ability to tell good from evil or to extricate himself from their seductive embrace.

The author is a very skilled writer, who creates fascinating characters with multiple layers, conflicted motivations, and inscrutable actions. The descriptions in the book that support the plot are heavy with symbolism, magical references, and philosophical undertones, but they are so beautifully written that they roll across your mind with the smoothness of a piece of silk, and add wonderful texture and colour to the plot.

Naming the main character Gabriel alone is crazy-symbolic, since he's the avenging angel trying to discover the secrets of the Monk sisters and bring them to justice - or at least, that's how he starts out. Things quickly turn complicated and who's doing what to whom become murky. There are lots of little touches like Gabriel's name sprinkled through the book, which will be interesting to those interested in magic, the occult, or philosopy.

There is definitely excitement and suspense in the story, but it is more quiet and intellectual than rough-and-tumble. The best way I can think of to describe this is that it's a thinking person's suspense novel. I really enjoyed it.(less)

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Aug 05, 2011 T. Edmund rated it 2 of 5 stars

Season of The Witch stars our main squeeze Gabriel Blackstone, a computer hacking 'remote viewer' trained by the secret organisation Eyestorm. Gabriel is accompained by a collection of other ridiculously cheesey named characters as he investigates the disapearance of his ex-girlfriend's son-in-law.

Sound covoluted? It is, but don't worry. The plodding plot of this novel is almost too easy to follow, and the complications, rather than titilating, tend to be pointless drag.

The main plot point of Se...more Season of The Witch stars our main squeeze Gabriel Blackstone, a computer hacking 'remote viewer' trained by the secret organisation Eyestorm. Gabriel is accompained by a collection of other ridiculously cheesey named characters as he investigates the disapearance of his ex-girlfriend's son-in-law.

Sound covoluted? It is, but don't worry. The plodding plot of this novel is almost too easy to follow, and the complications, rather than titilating, tend to be pointless drag.

The main plot point of Season of the Witch, is that Gabriel is investigating two sisters as the key suspects in the aforementioned disapearance. Gabriel hacks into a laptop diary, and discovers that one of the sisters has a die-hard crush on him, the other is the killer. The majority of the story describes Gabriel double dating the sisters while agonizing over which sister is the killer and which is the lover (and briefly panics that they may both be both.)

The books reads as a somewhat enjoyable romp clumsily thrusting together, sci-fi remote viewing concepts, with fantasy witchcraft. But the desperate attempts to give Gabriel a dark past, and the pointless forays into his hacking day-job slow the pace of this novel to snail.

And while a bored reader may look past the needless length, perhaps a more damaging aspect of Season of the Witch, is the absolute unbelievability of the character relationships: Given that our disbelief is already suspended by the witchcraft and psychic stuff, maybe the author thought they could get away with interactions verging on fantasy - Gabriel ponces around with the witch sisters as if playing the lead in a bad porno, rather than investigating them for murder. Despite being a hairs-breath from being a widow, Gabriel's ex practically melts into his arms at every opportunity. Minor characters don't seem to care about the debachery going around them, and are content just to say what is needed to keep the plot slowly trickling forwards.

(Ok breath scathing reviewer)

To give this book its due, the action is solid, and the mytical research is interesting, the ending, despite the above, does have a poetic twist. So if you're just looking to kill a few hours, and you're a fan of True Blood and X-files - this is the book for you.

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Apr 10, 2011 Tammy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: adult-fiction, urban-fantasy, gothic-fiction, south-african

Prepare to be seduced by a gothic novel of intrigue, murder, love, the art of memory and remote viewing...

Season of the Witch by Natasha Mostert (Bantam Books)
It's very easy to mistake this book for just another unoriginal gothic sci-fi novel. After all, the synopsis on the book jacket seems to mention concepts that have been explored way too many times before.

That, coupled with the pretty, but rather romanc-y book cover makes this one of those gems that people will pass by simply because this...more

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Jan 06, 2011 Stephanie rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is an amazing book. I reread it after I finished it. It is a suspense novel, revolving around alchemy, magic, remote viewing, mystery and romance. It tells the story of Gabriel Blackstone, an information thief who steals data by hacking the computers of big companies. He is also a remote viewer and is able to enter the minds of others. He is asked by a former girlfriend, Cecily Frank, to find her missing stepson, last seen in the company of Morrighan and Minnaloushe Monk. Gabriel starts inv...more

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Jan 01, 2011 J-J newly convert to eReaders rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is one of those books that will stay with you long after you've read it.

I came across this book at my local community centre & i think the cover drew me in. The cover i've got has a crow beak open as if in a cry & a woman mainly her eye & in her eye is a symbol which looks to me like a woman (very hard to explain).
I was drawn in by the prologue it was captivating. The story centre's around Gabriel & he lives in London he steals information for a living, a computer hacker, w...more
This is one of those books that will stay with you long after you've read it.

I came across this book at my local community centre & i think the cover drew me in. The cover i've got has a crow beak open as if in a cry & a woman mainly her eye & in her eye is a symbol which looks to me like a woman (very hard to explain).
I was drawn in by the prologue it was captivating. The story centre's around Gabriel & he lives in London he steals information for a living, a computer hacker, with the help of his friend Isidore, mainly from big companies. He is contacted by a guy called William Whittington as his son had disappeared & he'd been given Gabriel's name as he was able to visit other people's minds. Gabriel wasn't interested in taking the job & told William. Then William mentioned the name Cecily Frankz, known as Frankie to everyone. The mere mention of her name stopped Gabriel in his tracks sending his memories for long ago & changed everything. He meets the Monk sisters, Morrighan & Minnaloushe, realizes straight away there's more to them than meets the eye but by then he's too drawn to them & intrigued by them that he seems to lose himself around them.That did make me a little mad as to me its saying that men can't help themselves around beautiful women but if they'd been ugly or less beautiful he wouldn't of been captivated by them.Yet Gabriel didn't know what he was getting into & it was going to change his life & everything stands for. Once he's boarded the ride he's on it till the end no matter what.
I really enjoyed this book & found it very hard to put down. There was maybe one or two chapters that was a little slow but they was needed to explain the rest of the story. In between most of the chapters there was an extract from a diary which i liked even when they didn't make any sense to me till i'd finished the whole book.
Its a book that will stay with you long after you've read it. I would recommend it i enjoyed it a lot. I really could go on & on but i'd end up spoiling it for everyone.(less)

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Dec 25, 2010 Jayne rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I found this book in my Community centre & I was drawn in by the prologue & the cover they're both captivating . The story centre's around Gabriel & he lives in London he steals information for a living, a computer hacker, with the help of his friend Isidore, mainly from big companies. He is contacted by a guy called William Whittington as his son had disappeared & he'd been given Gabriel's name as he was able to visit other people's minds. Gabriel wasn't interested in taking the...more

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Gabriel Blackstone’s a thief, engaged in high end industrial espianage. When a former lover, now married to an ailing millionaire, asks him to trace her missing step-son, he reluctantly agrees. He has psychic powers, which allow him to tap into the mind of the youth, who’s apparently having a hallucinogenic experience, wandering in a house with millions of rooms, many of which contain disturbing images. This ends with Gabriel experiencing the boy’s death, as he’s drowned by a beautiful woman.

Gab...more

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Jan 23, 2010 Herm rated it 5 of 5 stars

Wow, this book is really ~~good~~ amazing! Of course, I rated it a 5 star. Hmm...I would definitely recommend this book to...:

Age(s):
-13/14
-Older

...or for those who are genre-picky...!

Genres:
-Thriller
-Romance
-Magic
-Alchemy
-Mystery

There are some "sexual" things in it, but seriously guys, don't laugh about it. It takes place in modern England, where Gabriel Blackstone (the main character)is a remote viewer (RV) that can see through people's mind psychically, that needs to solve the murder case of Ro...more

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May 18, 2013 R.G. rated it 5 of 5 stars

What I loved most about this book is I actually learned something... you gotta hand it to a book filled with psychics and solar witches to actually teach someone a real talent that truly was invented by the ancient Greeks and used successfully...

While Gabriel’s ability to see into the future and to ‘hack’ information from other people’s minds is an incredibly cool idea... and the ‘witches’ abilities to access the worlds endless information and even allow people into their ‘memory rooms’ makes th...more

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Sep 03, 2011 Mar Lencaster rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: not-mine, read-in-2011

Não posso dizer que A Estação das Bruxas constasse da minha lista de leitura (que provavelmente atinge já uns bons quilómetros de comprimento) mas um empréstimo trouxe este livro até mim e nunca fui de negar leituras a ninguém.

A verdade é que não esperava muito do livro e fui um pouco de "pé atrás" devido principalmente ao facto de a sinopse não me atrair muito.

No geral, trata-se de um livro de nível mediano. A escrita é fluida e em linguagem simples, acessível e de fácil compreensão sem nada qu...more

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Jan 26, 2011 Mailis Viiand rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-serious, romance, witches

This book was a gift from ex-boyfriend who now is also a good friend, who gave it to me after coming back from a trip to USA, where he found it in a bookstore,and bought it for me, because he thought this was the stuff i usually read. Well, about that time i had finished Twilight series and had good words to say about those books, so he thought that i was probably entering puberty again and wishing to relive all the girly fantasies or something, reading romances about witches and vampires. So he...more

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Jul 27, 2010 Jennifer rated it 3 of 5 stars

It's not overly cleverly written, but this novel still manages to capture attention. This novel follows a corporate information thief, Gabriel, from your run of the mill corporate spy type scenarios and into a separate missing person investigation.

Using his psychic abilities to sense out the missing Robbie's final thoughts, Gabriel is led into the home of the Monk sisters, who practice witchcraft and of course seduction. Sucked into their simultaneously laid charms, Gabriel must keep his pants...more

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Feb 04, 2009 Sarah rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: probably

This was a pretty good book, a little slow at first and a lot better towards the end. It's not exactly about a couple of witches but more or less what the word witch means wich is to have complete knowledge and understanding. It is about a couple of sisters who have a memory palace wich in it they are the keepers of, and Gabriel tries to understand them by getting closer to them and he tries to solve a mystery about a young man that was trapped in this memory palace. It goes through the journey...more

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Dec 26, 2008 Nain rated it 4 of 5 stars

I brought this at the airport as a last minute buy before going on holiday.
It turned out, it was a pretty good choice!
By the 3rd day, I had finished, and it was definitely interesting. I was drawn into the world of hacing, memory and the two strange sisters. I read it so qiuckly because I really did just want to know what happened at the end.
While Gabriel was with the sisters, I just wanted to yell at him to be careful, to get out, but at the same time I desperately wanted to know the outcome.
Th...more

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Feb 09, 2011 Johanna Varnander rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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May 21, 2010 Victoria rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy-science-fiction, mystery-thriller

I really liked this book! It was a unique sort of thriller/fantasy/mystery novel. A fast and entertaining read, it certainly was not predictable and kept me guessing over which sister was good and which was evil until the very end! I think, however, the book would have benefited from a different title and cover, one that would be more widely appealing for the mystery that it was. The story had a very cinematic feel, and I think that the paranormal romance cover and title would put off a section...more

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Sep 22, 2012 Gaye Marshall rated it 4 of 5 stars

It was an interesting blend of computer hacker crime with the occult thrown in. A murder is the reason Gabriel, a thief of information, becomes involved with the two beautiful and stunningly brilliant Monk sisters. Gabriel tries to find the killer as a favour to an old friend, but he loses his way. He fascinates the Monk sisters because he has not an ordinary mind.

This story is spooky and fascinating, it goes along at a steady pace and for those who love to read about London, this is perfect. I...more

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Jun 04, 2009 Lizz rated it 4 of 5 stars

I just finished reading "Season of the Witch." If you like fantasy or just a good story, this is the book for you.

It's about two sisters who live together in a decrepit old house. They become suspects of a murder and a RV (Remote Viewer: Psychic) is called in to investigate. There were so many new concepts that I'd never even heard of which made this book a fascinating read. At the end of the book the author tells you that some of the more far fetched ideas were actually based on true events.

I d...more

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Mar 13, 2009 Kimberly rated it 4 of 5 stars

It took a while to get use to the "narative" style of this book, but once I did it was easy to read. I found myself feeling she was very poetic in the way she wrote, and enjoyed it emensley.

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"In "Season of the Witch", Natasha Mostert writes a satisfying intellectual novel that entertains the reader on multi-levels. Combining a knowledge of computer technology, the occult and psychology, she weaves a story that teases the "seeker" in all of us while transforming a c...more

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Nov 24, 2011 Lisa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It took me a while to get into this one, perhaps because I didn’t much like the main protagonist, but once the real mystery began to unfold it was impossible not to read on and find out the truth.This was not as frightening a read as I had expected from the cover, but the Monk sisters are fascinating if unrealistic characters, and the subjects tackled in this book are intriguing. In that sense it reminded me of the infamous and terrible Da Vinci Code – complicated topics presented in an easy to...more

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Sep 14, 2012 Denise rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Consegui este livro numa troca, com uma sinopse que não deixava antecipar muita coisa, por isso quando o tive na mão fiquei com muito medo dele, mas só precisei de ler o 1º capítulo para ficar completamente rendida +.+...
É um livro magnífico, onde tem magia, mistério, conspiração e policial, o que se revelou uma mistura simplesmente deliciosa...
Queria que ele dura-se até à próxima semana, mas levar 4 dias a lê-lo, já foi um grande desafio, pois não o queria largar...
Ah! Tive muita pena do Gabrie...more

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Nov 03, 2010 Macie rated it 1 of 5 stars

A truly awful book. I have never been so conscious of the actual words on the page; this story was so clunky I was at least a quarter of the way into the book before I could get past the writing and start comprehending it as a story. It was given to me by someone who thought I would like it. I think I should be insulted. Everyone is super-sexy and characters actually have names like Morrighan and Minnaloushe. The whole thing is just embarrassing. I don't recommend it for anyone over the age of 1...more

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Aug 05, 2011 Anna rated it 2 of 5 stars

Disappointing. It was a cool story idea that definitely grabbed me at the first page, but, sadly, let me down as the story progressed. The characters of the sisters felt insufficiently rounded out -- too much was made of their differences so that they became almost stereotypes instead of people -- and there was a blindingly obvious red herring that made me want to scream. Basically, I know I'm disappointed in a book when I start to think "If I were writing it I would have done it *this* way..."....more

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Jul 05, 2012 Sara Hemenway rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery, magic, fantasy

I got this on a bargain book shelf. I'm not sure I would say that I enjoyed it completely. It sometimes made me uncomfortable. But it was intriguing, entertaining and at times engrossing. The ending was not at all formulaic. The climax of the book was a trip, and the end was kind of strange in all honesty. There are romantic elements, but I would not classify it as a romance novel.

Overall, I'm giving it four stars because it stuck in my brain. I still think about it sometimes and I read it over...more

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Dec 01, 2012 Laura rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: magic, science-fiction, 6-stars-out-of-5

This book cleverly combines fact with fiction to create an enthralling adventure of the heart and mind.

Gabriel Blackstone once worked for Eyestorm, (a fictional British version of the real secret STARGATE project in America) where people with psychic talents were used to track down missing persons until he made a terrible mistake. All that is behind him now and he works as a hacker, a lucrative and exciting job that gives him the lifestyle he longed for as a child.

When a former lover from his Ey...more This book cleverly combines fact with fiction to create an enthralling adventure of the heart and mind.

Gabriel Blackstone once worked for Eyestorm, (a fictional British version of the real secret STARGATE project in America) where people with psychic talents were used to track down missing persons until he made a terrible mistake. All that is behind him now and he works as a hacker, a lucrative and exciting job that gives him the lifestyle he longed for as a child.

When a former lover from his Eyestorm days returns, looking for help to find her missing son-in-law, she drags him into a world he could never have imagined. He is introduced to two sisters, Minnaloushe and Morrigahn, modern day witches who create their own modern alchemy, making natural products, and selling terrifying tribal masks. He is drawn to them both.

But one of the sisters is a murderer.

I fell in love with the sisters the first time I read this book. While they may be wealthy heiresses, they are not clichés. They enjoy operas, open mike poetry, kickgoxing tournaments and graveyard picnics. Minnaloushe loves art, and has a doctorate, Morrigahn is a nature warrior who once broke her back, and an adrenaline junkie who loves bungee jumping. They are highly intelligent, delightfully mysterious, and have that edge of charming oddness that makes you unable to stop falling for them. I really wanted them to be real so I could be a part of their dreamy world.

I love the mixture of fact and fiction in this novel. Eyestorm is based on the real top secret STARGATE project in America. In the afterword, the author mentions books you can read to learn more about it. Memory palaces are also real, and I find the concept fascinating. In the last season of Sherlock, it was revealed that he used the memory palace system, which pleased me very much. I also loved all the references to witchcraft and magic in the past.

Combine that with some hacking, and the 'remote viewing' psychic powers, and you have a masterful and thrilling story. The characters all have pasts and motivations that make sense, and the rooms in the memory palace are delightfully strange and surreal.

I first read this book about four years ago, and it continues to be a favourite of mine.(less)

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(from website)When my publisher asked me to submit a 200 word biography for their authors' website, I thought about dropping the usual bio platitudes and submitting the following: "Natasha Mostert is a spectacularly brilliant, raven-haired psychic who saw her first ghost at the age of four. She likes to take midnight rides on horseback and practises levitation twice a day. However, upon reflection...more (from website)When my publisher asked me to submit a 200 word biography for their authors' website, I thought about dropping the usual bio platitudes and submitting the following: "Natasha Mostert is a spectacularly brilliant, raven-haired psychic who saw her first ghost at the age of four. She likes to take midnight rides on horseback and practises levitation twice a day. However, upon reflection I didn't think my editor would be too amused by this flight of fancy. So here it is, the official (and much less exciting) Natasha Mostert biography:

Natasha Mostert is South African. She grew up in Pretoria and Johannesburg but currently lives in London with her husband, Frederick. She still keeps an apartment in the university town of Stellenbosch in the Cape province.
She is the author of five novels. Her latest novel, Keeper of Light and Dust (published in the UK under the title The Keeper) joins together ancient mysteries with cutting-edge science and introduces a fascinating heroine who belongs to a long line of Keepers: women who are healers, warriors and protectors of men who are engaged in hand-to-hand combat. Tattoos, quantum physics, chi and martial arts all combine in an intricately crafted plot.

Her fourth novel, Season of the Witch, is a modern gothic thriller about techgnosis and the Art of Memory and won the Book to Talk About: World Book Day 2009 Award. Film rights were sold to Allotria Productions with Emmy-award winning screenwriter, Andrew Davies, commisioned to write the script. Mostert's debut novel was The Midnight Side, a story of obsessive love and a ghost manipulating the London Stock Exchange. In The Other Side of Silence, a sinister computer game becomes the key to unravelling the riddle of the Pythagorean Comma: one of the oldest and deadliest mysteries in the science of sound. Her third novel, Windwalker, is a story of fratricide, redemption, ghost photography and soul mates searching for each other.

Educated in South Africa and at Columbia University, New York, Mostert majored in modern languages and also holds graduate degrees in Lexicography and Applied Linguistics. She has worked as a teacher in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and as project coordinator in the publishing department of public television station WNET/Thirteen in New York City. Her political opinion pieces have appeared on the op-ed page of The New York Times, in Newsweek, The Independent and The Times (London).

Interests aside from writing include music, running and kickboxing. Click here to find out more about her involvement with the CPAU Fighting for Peace project, which teaches Afghan women how to box and feel empowered in their lives. Future goals include writing poetry, executing a perfect spinning backkick and coming face to face with the ghost of Edgar Allen Poe.(less)

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“They were slowing down. The noise of the rope as they reached the full extent of the jump sounded like the ricochet crack of the sail on a tall ship. And now they were accelerating again, up, up and suddenly they were hanging suspended: weightless in space. No up or down. The feeling of disorientation absolute.” — 1 person liked it

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