Rotherweird: Rotherweird Book I

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This lends a certain haziness to the cast, despite the vivid descriptions; a quality reinforced by Caldecott’s restless, mayfly viewpoint. Frequently – though never in the spare, subtler “old history” sections, which gracefully unravel the town’s necromantic origins - I found myself yearning for more inner time with its inhabitants, particularly those caught in the story’s gnarlier moral nodes. Caldecott represented the BBC in the Hutton Inquiry and The Guardian in the Leveson Inquiry. [4] He has also represented a large number of celebrity clients including Naomi Campbell and Johnny Depp. [5] [6] Author [ edit ]

The town of Rotherweird stands alone – there are no guidebooks, despite the fascinating and diverse architectural styles cramming the narrow streets, the avant garde science and offbeat customs. Cast adrift from the rest of England by Elizabeth I, Rotherweird’s independence is subject to one disturbing condition: nobody, but nobody, studies the town or its history. Campbell lawyers demand 'sensitive' approach". The Guardian. 18 February 2004 . Retrieved 12 March 2022. Because I basically binged all three books in the Rotherweird Trilogy last month I decided to review all three of them together. I will however try my best to keep it spoiler free so you can read this review even if you haven’t read any of the books yet. As you might be able to tell from the very first sentence of this review, I absolutely loved these books. I couldn’t stop reading and just had to find out what happened next. It’s very rare for me to read a series one book after the other as I usually get a bit of series fatigue and have to slot in another book to cleanse the palate a little bit. Not with Rotherweird! I never got bored and never even thought about putting the series down for another book. Compared to the other books that are up there on my favourites shelve, this one made the cut because of very different reasons than the others. The Rotherweird trilogy stands out because it’s quirky, it has the most amazing cast of characters and it takes place in mysterious and enchanting surroundings. The one aspect that really took the cake from those is the characters. As we read on we get introduced to more inhabitants of Rotherweird and some of the countrysiders who live outside of the town’s walls. They all have their quirks and specific personality traits, but the author makes it really easy to connect with each and every one of them. Books that deal with a lot of characters can sometimes become confusing and although Rotherweird teetered on the edge of confusion sometimes, switching viewpoints from paragraph to paragraph, it didn’t bother me at all. On the contrary, to me this gave the book a sort of cinematic feel: jumping across town to our different characters and getting a glimpse of what they’re doing or thinking at that time. It highlighted the contrast of the different characters and made it all feel very real.Never straying far from a cup of tea, Miss Lawrence is an audiobook reviewer, writer, editor, and the resident librarian of a lively audiobook discussion group for people with chronic illnesses and disabilities. While there is plenty to savour in this engrossing debut, some of Caldecott’s storytelling choices come at a cost. Occasionally, whimsy threatens to overwhelm – we’re told punning is one character’s forte, but actually it’s an occupational hazard for all Rotherweirders. Similarly, when we might expect anagram fiend Marmon Finch to solve a central mystery, it’s another character who does.

Intricate and crisp, witty and solemn: a book with special and dangerous properties,’ Hilary Mantel Disturbing omens multiply: a funeral delivers a cryptic warning; an ancient portrait speaks; the Herald disappears - and democracy threatens the uneasy covenant between town and countryside. Geryon Wynter's intricate plot, centuries in the making, is on the move. Everything points to one objective - the resurrection of Rotherweird's dark Elizabethan past - and to one date: the Winter Solstice. Wynter is coming.... I would recommend this book to people who enjoyed the first two books in the series, Rotherweirdand Wyntertide, as it is too intricately-scripted to work as a stand-alone. Four and a half centuries on, cast adrift from the rest of England by Elizabeth I and still bound by its ancient laws, Rotherweird’s independence is subject to one disturbing condition: nobody, but nobody, studies the town or its history. The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.For beneath the enchanting surface lurks a secret so dark that it mustneverbe rediscovered, still less reused. Rotherweird holds its own secret – which is revealed pretty early on in the first novel – which explains its prohibition against studying history: it contains a portal to Lost Acre, another realm or universe or plane of existence populated by monstrous creatures and containing a “mixing point” into which animals, plants and people can be sent to be merged together into grotesque forms. A collection of four stones placed in various places on a cage seem to be able to control the process and – in the sixteenth century – the mixing point is used by the gifted children to, variously, create monstrous familiars, to punish the recalcitrant and to grant power and longevity.