Bowl Of Night [Paperback]

Rosemary Edghill (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Forge (1996)
• ASIN: B000OTJ7QA
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this book!, June 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bowl of Night: A Bast Mystery (Hardcover)

For less money, you can buy "Bell, Book, and Murder" instead, which is a compilation of all three Bast books (including this one). Wish someone had told me before I bought all four!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable, but not her best, December 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bowl of Night: A Bast Mystery (Hardcover)

As with the previous two Bast mysteries, this one is a rollicking good read. Edghill has a talent for moving the story along with nary a lull in the action. And I must admit, I have a soft place in my heart for the Bast books because they focus on My People. :) However, this particular book was a tad disappointing in that the killer's identity is ridiculously obvious from the moment the body is discovered. For some reason it takes Bast until the end of the book to figure it out, leaving the reader to think, "Well, DUH!" Also, a few loose ends were left hanging, such as who shot the townie? The character of Bast herself is not as strong in this book as in the previous two. She seems a bit lost as she drifts between Lark and Julian, struggles with whether to start her own coven, and generally just gets pushed around by various other characters in the book. Still, it's a good read, and the descriptions of the HallowFest attendees is hilarious. Edghill nails the neopagan community as closely as Sharon McCrumb nailed the sci-fi fan community in Bimbos of the Death Sun.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not the stereotypical female detective, June 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bowl of Night: A Bast Mystery (Hardcover)

I enjoyed the three Bast mysteries I've read and wish there were more. The author isn't the greatest mystery writer (that honor goes to Robert Barnard) but the book is interesting to the last page. In fact,it was so interesting it kept my mind off the fact that I was reading it in a small airplane flying in the dark over some pretty high mountains.