Review: Good characterization
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2013
My feelings are that these areas are where the book really shines.  Pippa's story begins with her portrayed as a somewhat thoughtless and impulsive teenager - probably a little more typical of our modern era than in a 17th century English village.  It is easy to see the layers of her character added as events develop.  The author's grasp of the venality , greed, envy, and yes...superstition and fear driving events is very thorough.  Not to forget the psychotic witch hunter.  All of which is antithetical to what I'd prefer to see in people, but which is all too recognizably reality captured by the author.