(from the back of the book)
The valley of myth and power where magic made a woman out of
flowers, where a doomed warrior won vengeance from beyond the grave, where the
power of sorcery built and built and sought release.
Then Alison found plates with owl patterns that vanished;
Roger felt screams near an ancient stone, and Gwyn touched the force of a
tragic Celtic legend – unknowing, they broke the seals that bound the sorcery.
Mythic forces, of love and damnation, lived again. The magic was loose…
This is an odd little book.
I kept waiting for the moment when things would start to fall into
place. Unfortunately they never really
did. Maybe if I was familiar with the
myth the book is based on I would have had a chance of following along. As it was I had trouble understanding what
was going on most of the time. It did
have a creepy feel to it that I think it was going for and made you want to
know why things were happening and how it would turn out. But I never found out. It never made it clear why the characters
were caught in this loop, or what the owl pattern plates were about or
anything. And the ending was just
confusing and didn’t explain anything. It
was interesting to read but disappointing in the end because it never came
together and ended up being a series of odd, unexplained events that happened
for no apparent reason.
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