I used The Widow of Pale Harbor for this week's Book Beginnings & Friday 56 post. Although I had barely made a dent at it at the time, based on how much I loved The Witch of Willow Hall (all three times I read it), I knew that it would likely be perfect for today.
By the time I hit the third chapter I already had more blips and blurbs than I could possibly squeeze in to one not-impossible-to-read collage. That's my biggest gripe with Hester Fox -- her words are too perfectly put together and my rambles will never be able to do them proper justice. It's unfair. Anything I could possibly write in a "review" just feels like "OMG! DWAKFMBTRVHVTBETNYAN!" in comparison.
This time her words are about the small village of Pale Harbor, Maine. There's one police officer. The closest school is ten miles away. Gabriel Stone has come from Concord, Massachusetts to become the minister of a new congregation focusing on transcendentalism after the death of his wife. Sophronia Carver is a recluse believed to be a witch who killed her husband.
It has all of the dismal eeriness with an overlapping romance that I love about gothic literature. It was almost impossible to pick just five blips for today ... and it was almost impossible to sleep until I knew who was wreaking havoc in Pale Harbor using the works of Edgar Allan Poe (the father of gothic literature) as inspiration.
I'm already looking forward to the first time I re-read it.... and sleep.
If you want to share whatever has kept you up past your bedtime because you just needed one more chapter ... or the entire book ... please comment! My TBR pile is already toppling, but I can always add more.
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