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A rousing historical adventure and a delightfully confident novel from Isard who delivers a read packed with densely packed intrigue and chases The Guild of Salt and the King’s Messenger proves a powerful debut.
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Emotionally complex Secrets of Edenfield is a story that keeps us on edge from beginning to end whilst demonstrating what an author can accomplish with a compact cast of characters and a powerful theme.
Loni Hoots is an author who has a feel for the shock rhythms of a story whilst chipping away at reality piece by piece as fear and tension mount. She wants to evoke a sense of empathy and shock for the victims of Edenfield and she certainly achieves it.
On this level Secrets of Edenfield is original with plenty of vivid and gut-wrenching moments but it also works as a portrait of individuals living in a mental asylum. Relentlessly pulling us in as their stories are told without drifting into trite genre clichés.
Here Secrets of Edenfield manages to be both engaging and poignant with Hoots getting the juxtaposition between the big-picture “horrors of murder and abuse” stuff and the personal, small-scale stuff just right. Her characters are particularly vibrant and it is this that makes the tragedy of unfolding events so powerful.
Hoots isn’t out to entertain with salacious genre thrills but something deeper and more profound. There are no answers here, and no saccharine ending but readers will find themselves looking deeper into Secrets of Edenfield whilst reflecting on the heartbreak of events that sadly happen over and over again in real life and it’s a credit to Hoots that through her writing she has brought them once again into focus.
A read that will linger in your memory long after the last page is turned Secrets of Edenfield is strongly recommended.
A rousing historical adventure and a delightfully confident novel from Isard who delivers a read packed with densely packed intrigue and chases The Guild of Salt and the King’s Messenger proves a powerful debut.
The pace of Hoover’s novel is rapid, almost hectic at times, the touch glancing and he doesn’t linger on any of its settings too long. Shaping even the most casual scenes decisively as the lines between right and wrong become heavily blurred.
Dusk creeps upon you as you make your way home, bringing with it the stillness and dark of night. As one sense shutters another opens, magnifying each whisper of wind-every shuffle on the pavement behind you.
As the years advance, I have lost count of how many books I’ve read but on reflection, it hardly seems relevant. What is truly noteworthy is how many leave a lasting impression on us.
Why should we care about these personal experiences, of the reminiscing of an individual with whom we have no obvious connection?
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