Review: 1 Witch + 1 Wizard + 2 Magic Cats = Un4getable Fun + Great reading
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 26, 2012
I suspect there is a serious writer lurking inside our Mr. Kater. You can sense that presence sprinkled here and there in our lady of fascination, Hilda the Wicked Witch, Lycadea. As with all the Hilda series of adventures this one was a delight I hated to see it come to an end. I read to be amused, delighted and find a secret place where I may escape the daily pattern of my life. Don't try to enlighten me, engage me in relevant issues or pour misery into my, already, overcrowded brain. Entertain me! Make me laugh. Make me feel good about being alive. Lie to me if necessary but do it knowing that you know that I know that you know it is happening. We strike a bargain in a book purchase - we trade money for someone else's life (time). In exchange we enter a covenant, contract, if you might. A contract finding us in agreement that what you are selling is what I want to buy. In so many books I end up buying philosophy, political or social opinion and/or commentary or worse someone dragging my emotions through a complex maze of doors eventually leading to a personal hell in which they live. I buy "Hilda" - Crappity Crap - no one can buy Hilda! I lease her adventures for a time when I can join in the fun of being basically all powerful, needing and being needed - wicked - guided by a heart of pure gold. Sensible reading? Hell, no! Fun reading - at its best! Escape? You bet! On my Kindle - YES! I have read them all and I am brooding until Paul releases another wild, outlandish, tale of our dream couple - I would love to see the house fixer-uppers on television try to make a few changes in Hilda's house - Now that would be a great chapter no matter how you look at it. Serious readers, beware, you are not going to get into this - too many filters, too many classes on creative and correctly framed or spelled narrative. Stay with the classics! But for fun seekers, escape artists, dreamers, lovers and children of 60 living in childlike belief Hilda is Queen. To read the words in one language written from the thoughts of one who lives in another tongue, translated within the same mind - is inviting, refreshing and completely satisfying. If the simple words "draw me a sheep" warm your heart, then you can begin to imagine how the thought of s sulking cottage and a friend whose face can stop freight trains will bring you the elixir for your run down imagination. Do I love and offer you Hilda to read lightly but deeply? Hey, what do I need to do? Shoot an arrow into your mail post? D. R. "Raggy" RagsdaleHilda The Wicked Witch