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May 02, 2018 Stephen Robert Collins rated it it was amazing

Six weeks ago I meet young woman in Darlington Waterstones I started talking as you do about books & she said you must try this young author From Durham City if like fantasy she said it was her best friend she wrote the He titled down,I ordered at the local Libuary & forgot all about till it came in
This is that book. The lesson here speak to strangers in book shops if they are buying books you have read.
This is a what if book.......
In 1843 Loan Helstone a missionary instead of going to deepes Six weeks ago I meet young woman in Darlington Waterstones I started talking as you do about books & she said you must try this young author From Durham City if like fantasy she said it was her best friend she wrote the He titled down,I ordered at the local Libuary & forgot all about till it came in
This is that book. The lesson here speak to strangers in book shops if they are buying books you have read.
This is a what if book.......
In 1843 Loan Helstone a missionary instead of going to deepest darkest Africa goes to Areadia the land of Fae a evil Godless world he hopes to convert the Fae to The Gospels good luck on that.
A Mirror of what missionary life was to the black men who got Christianity shoved down there throat in the 18th & 19th century the 'heathens' weather want it or not. The Fae do not. When Catherine his loving sister who tells the story arrives to Gethsemane a Rebecca style house in sister setting but Rev .Laon Helstone is missing.
This Ghotic Victorian style dark Magical Fantasy with evil Queen of the Fae who is Insane & gess who she is out hunting ?
Well I am very glad I went to Waterstones that day.
With poetry & Biblical quits about the use of salt upon meat & ghostly shadows, changelings, Mr Benjamin the gnome who is only convention to God this has an echo of "I wish I was in Manderley" that I keep hearing whispering in my head as I read it this corker of a creepy horror fantasy
Miss Davenport is lot like Mrs Danvers in Rebecca odd dark vile & then there is the Salamander the invisible house keeper who is in the shadows out of sight but there yet not. Hidden but not .
Then there is use of salt Which makes me feel sick as use little or no salt on food but here before eating you must salt food but not just meat ,fish, chicken but everything even wine , cakes,tarts or strawberries ugh ! Or you be turned or dead or both.
Two dark hidden secrets surprises you later in book ,Mab is The Fairy Queen from Milton 's Paradise Lost .
Ng has made a mistake when she says 'The Jewish Demon' The one in Faust but Jews have no hell they do not believe in the devil or Demons '. This was book I enjoyed for its Religions secrets & the sins with in. ...more

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