Review: Evocative
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 10, 2013
Taylor's story, set at Christmas during the Edwardian age, features two lonely boys, not quite friends but adrift together in a harsh world of English public school. The center of this story, this world, is a massive and possibly haunted Cathedral. Seeking adventure, redemption, answers to what they may have seen or heard, the boys make the fateful decision to unlock doors and climb into a darkness that functions as a character unto itself.I was very taken with Taylor's writing, his patient approach to story telling. He seems to know that it's what we don't see clearly or understand fully which is most frightening. As an aside, the ratting scene is, I think,  heartbreaking, a foreshadowing of what was to break upon these boys and their unsuspecting society in but a few short years.