Review: A treasure
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2012
Gorgeously written this story was a gift I didn't know I needed - a gift for the lesbian soul - a fairy tale that actually spoke openly to me as a lesbian.  What surprised me was the pain that came up, again,  even though I am well into crone status, at the fact I grew up with no images to reflect who I am, who I was born to be, and how to escape the wicked spells cast by the fearful.  Witch Sea can help change this for the generations who are yet to come.Like the characters in the story, lesbians have historically been held invisible prisoners to illusion, prisoners to the popular social construction of reality passed on by the voices of our mothers, fathers, husbands (got to be fair here *S*) as we stood both isolated and lonely and on the shore looking out and longing for "home". This fairy tale both pointed out the void and then immediately and satisfying filled it.At the risk of repeating myself, I realized/was reminded that my younger self had been deprived by not having this type of literature available, and I recognized  an old  longing as profound as Meriel's, as she struggles with separating her voice from her family tradition in an effort to discover her true voice (Self), free of the repeating tapes of her straight mother's commands as well as the mother/grandmother's ugly lack of empathy - the extreme lack of empathy by the way - being one definition of evil  (see M. Scott Peck), but we all know the battles of evil and magic are the classic fodder of the hidden teachings within fairy tales. Nor, already knows who she is and longs to return to her true essence. She is the embodiment of empathy and love, a power more potent than the fear holding the illusion in place. A beautifully spun tale and hey, who says there can't be two good witches in the same story, one helping the other find truth?The author is onto something special here and I am very glad to have stumbled across this treasure.