Review: Haunting and Imaginative
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2012
The story, itself, was really well done.  It deftly contrasts our modern day science-dominated belief system with a more Earth Mother or Druidic view.  The vocabulary is really refreshing and will challenge even the most educated reader.  However, a proofreader is really needed.  There are several typographical errors that look like the kind one gets with OCR software when going from hardcopy to digital.  For example, there are at least 2 occurrences of "arid" where "and" is obviously called for, and "he" and "be" are substituted for each other.My only other complaint is that several British phrases have been inadvertently left in when the book is set in the U.S., specifically in Tennessee.  There are several places where it looks like the author has not personally seen the mountain cultures of Tennessee.  On the other hand, some of the presentations of the people of that area are done well.Overall, I think it is a highly intelligent treatment of the kind of ghost story or supernatural tale that is very popular right now.