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Laddar... Spider Light (utgåvan 2008)av Sarah Rayne
VerksinformationSpider Light av Sarah Rayne
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I didn't enjoy this book quite as much as her others, too many murders, too many convenient coincidences. Having said that, the characters are well-drawn and mostly believable, a strange collection of rather weird people. Rayne is very good at creating atmosphere and this book is no exception. For some reason, my copy has typeset problems with a large number of letters not properly spaced within the word, something I found a bit irritating. ( ) This is the third book I've read by this author, and I really enjoyed it. This time the creepy building was a disused mill and there was also the inclusion an asylum called 'Latchkill'. I enjoyed the unfolding sub-plots and and learning how various deaths occurred in the mill over different generations. Rayne doesn't attempt to disguise the fact that her plot construction is the same in each book, although this recipe always delivers a thrilling read. Deviating from this recipe would be exciting for the reader for a change but at the same time a risk to the success of the novel. I guess the only way to know if she's done this is to read her other books. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a thriller and uncovering a web of secrets from the past. Two interwoven stories,one in the present and the other in the 1800's. Both are set in a small area of the English countryside which covers several buildings crucial to the story. The main two are Twygrist Mill and Latchkill Asylum for the Insane. In the present day,a woman who has spent some time in prison for stabbing a man to death,is released early and ends up renting a cottage near to these buildings. She hopes to put her past behind her and to start a new life. Soon after arriving strange things begin to happen - is she going mad,or is there someone persecuting her for an,as yet unknown reason. Slowly the past encroaches and evil reaches out over time to involve her. There is a strong,dark story-line (almost too strong and dark at times) and some really scary scenes. The characters are well-drawn and the fact that many of them are killers as well as mad adds rather than distracts. I love the fact that central to each of her books Sarah Rayne has a building (well several in this one) and this helps bring all of her books together so well. Psychological thriller incorporating Dark Secrets of the Past. On the whole pretty good, although the implausible coincidences – and the sheer number of murders, to say nothing of the sheer number of murderers! – rather threaten to overbalance the story. But, still, hard to put down, and responsible for a couple of very late nights. I'll be picking up the rest of this author's books when I can. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
""The dangerous thing about spider light is that it hides things - things you never knew existed. But once you have seen those things, you can never afterwards forget them ...""Antonia Weston has come to the sleepy market town of Amberwood in search of peace and anonymity after a shattering and all-too-public tragedy in her life. But shortly after her arrival, a series of disturbing incidents occur - incidents that eerily echo a past she is trying to forget. As Antonia struggles to re-build her life, she becomes increasingly fascinated by the macabre history surrounding her: the disused watermill, Twygrist, with its brooding darkness, and the now-vanished Latchkill Asylum. Memories of Latchkill still linger: memories of how, when the autumn dusk - the 'spider-light' - fell, no one would dare walk past its gates. Because a hundred years ago, people lost their identities inside Latchkill's walls. People such as the innocent Maud Lincoln, jolted out of that innocence by a brutal plot.But Antonia's fascination with the linked histories of Latchkill and Twygrist has alerted someone from her own past. Someone who knows all about Twygrist's darkness. Someone prepared to use that knowledge in the most horrific way ... Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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