Review: Good Writing, More Horror than Paranormal
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 8, 2013
The book was kind of dry academic facts thrown into a fast paced story of suspense, romance, supernatural action.  The really unique and amazing thing about this book - and a disclaimer here, I don't read known 'horror' - was that it actually skeeved me out!  I was stuffing towels in a gap in the bathroom floor to make sure a bug couldn't get in. WOW!  That's some either very good writing or a primeval fear most of us have? - not sure which, but the book was definitely effective in bringing the scary.  No quarter allowed for the weak, or the good, really.I think it would benefit from a bibliography to establish the facts thrown out as I can't ascertain if there are really more witches than Quakers, (closest I can come is 750,000 witches and 217,000 Quakers but that seems to be speculative). And the book failed to mention the long historical association between both.****************SPOILERISH***************** And it bothered me that things that came 'from evil' suddenly turned innocuous or harmless around the good fairy lead, esp. the diamond/spirit. Who keeps such a thing? She was oddly naive about some things. The cat thing was that, and just another example of creepy.  And her decision to sleep with the evil one was like a monkey wrench thrown into the plot, a bit deus ex machina to move things along.Also it was odd to me that so much time was spent on blood and yet, no actual discussion of if the blood had any affect on the alleged "magic."  All that explanation of witchcraft, but not much explanation of black magic; what did the Necromancer actually gain from blood sacrifice? besides a kitten?! What was the cost?  And most importantly - how were the doors still locked?!An interesting read if you're ready for the actual horror aspects, not just the fantasy idea of witches and warlocks!Also leaving out the *horror* genre in the book's description but the author commenting to a reviewer how they can read a *sample* of the book to find this out is could easily be addressed by adding the word horror to the book's description.  The book has been re-issued and edited now from the author's comment below.