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The Black Moon (Poldark, #5)

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Sep 01, 2018 Kimberly rated it it was amazing

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Jun 06, 2020 Sandra Visser rated it liked it · review of another edition

I didn't enjoy this as much as the previous four books. I found most of it quite dark and depressing, especially Aunt Agatha's scenes. Perhaps because I knew what was coming (I watched the TV series before reading the book) I felt a sense of dread every time it got to the preparations for her party, and I knew how the book ends so that must have slowed down my reading as well as I didn't really want to get to that awful scene.

I also felt there was way too much of George in this book. It's inter I didn't enjoy this as much as the previous four books. I found most of it quite dark and depressing, especially Aunt Agatha's scenes. Perhaps because I knew what was coming (I watched the TV series before reading the book) I felt a sense of dread every time it got to the preparations for her party, and I knew how the book ends so that must have slowed down my reading as well as I didn't really want to get to that awful scene.

I also felt there was way too much of George in this book. It's interesting to see events from his perspective and understand his way of thinking but the sense of helpless anger I felt at his machinations regarding poor Morwenna made it unpleasant reading. As I knew where her story was heading as well I think that also made the reading more unpleasant. The previous books' events always felt organic, but the whole Morwenna Drake love story (while tender and sweet) felt almost too contrived as it was obviously another way to renew the enmity between George and Ross. Elizabeth was also her usual vaguely kind but ultimately passive self, and her behaviour towards anyone opposing George, while understandable, made me dislike her even more.

The book took a long time to get going and there was a lot about Methodism, the winter weather and the war with France that was tedious to read, a marked contrast to the first four books, where even bits about mining were interesting to me. As always I loved the discussions and interactions between Ross and Demelza, and Drake is a charming new character.

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Jul 19, 2017 Jessica rated it it was amazing

I am in sooo deep with these books! They are so good! I love the way the characters have developed and the love between Ross and Demelza has developed! 💕 I can't stop! On to the next book! So happy to have found this series. I love the TV series, very well done and follows very well the books! I am really enjoying the books however, as Ross is such a brooding male you really learn more about what's going through his mind in these books! ...more

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Mar 07, 2018 Shana rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Dec 26, 2016 Lori rated it really liked it · review of another edition

The Black Moon, the fifth Poldark novel, takes its title from the black moon (lunar eclipse) that takes place as George Warleggan & Elizabeth's son, Valentine, is born. Great-Aunt Agatha Poldark, nearing her 100th birthday, pronounces it to be a bad omen -- something she reiterates with great relish to George later in the book. There is a long interlude in France, where Ross risks everything to rescue his friend, Dr. Dwight Enys, from a French prison. And we are introduced to two of Demelza's br ...more

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Jan 10, 2017 Sewingdervish added it

This one bogged down for me in the battle chapters. You can also tell that this book was written in the 70s and not the 40s it is more explicit. Still an appropriate book for adults.

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