nawellponson's reviews
80 reviews

Well…some excellent, excellent places. Some pieces of prose made me laugh. Love Ralph! Love Lord Warburton. Caspar Goodwood? Gosh … the ending.

Always in awe of the fluidity and beauty of Woolf’s writing

Captivating and insightful. I even read the postludes.

Really 3.5, but rounding up. Love the idea of taking the real names and events of the witch trials in England of 1612 and creating a work of fiction around them. There were places that felt maybe a little drawn out or redundant, but all-in-all enjoyable.

“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could’ve been any different.” Oprah and Dr Bruce Perry really made great narrators and I enjoyed their back and forth. There were some moments that genuinely made me get emotional.

So I took nearly a 2 year sabbatical from this book, but really it bears no reflection on the story. Plot itself is really novel and lovely. Characters are also great — the three (4?) main women have distinct personalities and are likable. The book is dialogue heavy, which again is fine. Overall enjoyable, if not overly brilliant.

(Audiobook) The author narrated the book herself, which I enjoyed. She has a great sense of humor and is able to find real depth in her research areas while still being humorously relatable. A learned a lot of weird history!

du Maurier has a tendency to be a little long winded, but what a plot! Characterization is exquisite.