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This review is from: Eyes in the Fire (Hardcover)
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For Marian and Julian Dunne, their home at England's Dartmoor, Four Shields, has always been a haven of peace and tranquility. But unexpectedly their calm, ordered existence comes under threat. One sunny day, inside the house, Marian is overcome by dense, choking smoke. When she recovers consciousness, the smoke has disappeared and there is no trace of a fire that could have caused it. A few days later, on the high ground behind the house, Julian awakens from sleep to find his hand badly burned, yet there is no sign of fire on the ground beside him. Near Four Shields, on bleak Dartmoor itself, are the remains of a primitive settlement where centuries before ancient druids offered blood sacrifices to their gods. Marian carries the bloodlines of those druids, and as the fire and smoke return, she begins to sense another woman-a woman from those ancient times. In this powerful debut novel, Deborah Grabien has written a gripping tale of mystery, suspense, and ancient evil. Fantastic as the story may be, the author evokes a reality that increasingly involves the reader right up to the book's terrifying final scene. Rear Cover Copy It hit her with the force of a blow. Out of the dark, an arrow of knowledge, came the realization that she was being watched. There was something here with her, something that watched her, avid, greedy, wanting her....She was not alone.
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3.5 Stars - A good debut novel,
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This review is from: Eyes in the Fire (Hardcover)
First sentence: A light rain was falling on the M4, misting the road signs and slicking the asphalt.
Marian and Julian Dunne have lived at Four Shields in Dartmoor for ten years. One a sunny day, Marian is in the kitchen when she is overcome by smoke but finds there is no trace of it once she recovers. Several days later, Julian falls asleep on the moors above the house. When he awakes, he finds his hand has been badly burned. Lun is a young Bronze-Age woman with unusual yellow eyes, married to a lower Druid priest. She senses power within herself and chafes at her tribes ruling that women may not wear priest robes. She sees the shade of an oddly dressed woman and believes it to be her goddess, while Julian fears for Marian's safety as he sees physical transformations in her, including a yellowing of her eyes. There were some very good aspects to this book, the biggest being the level of suspense which starts at the beginning and carries all the way through. Grabien also provides an excellent sense of place, both in the past and in the present. The characters are well drawn and, for the most part, sympathetic. Dialogue is tricky; in present day it was fine but when you consider there is no way to represent Bronze Age dialogue with any degree of accuracy yet neither is it so discordant as to be annoying. Then there's the plot. It is engrossing, interesting and fascinating to speculate until the ending. I understand where she was going with the ending but I also felt she'd rather written herself into a corner and didn't know any other way to get out of it. For me, a different ending would have made a much more satisfying book. I very much enjoy Grabien's "Haunted Ballad" series. However, this was Grabien's first book and, in some ways, it shows.
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