[books 2011] The Winter Ghosts
Nov. 25th, 2011 03:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulro69. The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
This is more of a novella than a novel, about a young man who gets stranded in the Pyrenees in 1928, and, when invited to a village celebration in the place he is stranded, stumbles upon an entirely different village celebration, straight out of the 14th century.
It's set in one of my favourite places in the world, the Ariège valley. It starts in a place I know well, Tarascon-sur-Ariège. I've not been in winter, but her sense of place is quite wonderful.
I was less keen on the main character. He's a man who was too young to fight in WWI, who lost his brother and has never got over this loss, and has spent a lot of time in psychiatric hospitals. He's kind of annoying, even though he redeems himself at the end.
The theme is supposed to be that he's that way because his brother was the only person who ever loved him, his parents having been distant, so that Repression is Bad, MMmkay. Yes, we know that, can we move on.
Overall more good than bad, but really I'm just waiting for Citadel, the final instalment of the trilogy started with Labyrinth to come out.
This is more of a novella than a novel, about a young man who gets stranded in the Pyrenees in 1928, and, when invited to a village celebration in the place he is stranded, stumbles upon an entirely different village celebration, straight out of the 14th century.
It's set in one of my favourite places in the world, the Ariège valley. It starts in a place I know well, Tarascon-sur-Ariège. I've not been in winter, but her sense of place is quite wonderful.
I was less keen on the main character. He's a man who was too young to fight in WWI, who lost his brother and has never got over this loss, and has spent a lot of time in psychiatric hospitals. He's kind of annoying, even though he redeems himself at the end.
The theme is supposed to be that he's that way because his brother was the only person who ever loved him, his parents having been distant, so that Repression is Bad, MMmkay. Yes, we know that, can we move on.
Overall more good than bad, but really I'm just waiting for Citadel, the final instalment of the trilogy started with Labyrinth to come out.
