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2.0 out of 5 stars
Not what I expected,
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This review is from: A Sense of Shadow (Paperback)
I am a big Kate Wilhelm fan. I have thoroughly enjoyed all her Barbara Holloway novels, as a mystery writer she is FAR above average. As a sci-fi writer--not so much. This disjointed tale of spiritual possession is so confusing as to be almost incoherent. The blurb on the back leads the reader to expect a tale of a dead father, some murdered wives, and four children attempting to meet the terms of their fathers will by staying for one week in his huge Oregon home. Psychic phenomena and high drama are promised. What appears is more a mishmash of group hysteria, unexplained weirdness, horticultural mayhem, and partially recovered memories. Nothing that happens makes sense, or is ever explained. Nothing that happens is beyond the realm of confused adults remembering being confused children. Nothing happens to make these characters either believable or likeable. The story ends with a suicide, but since the character's motive is obscure and his personality lackluster, the reader passes off this "high drama" with no more than a yawn. I have no idea what Ms. Wilhelm meant this book to be. For a writer of her skill to have produced this clunker is the TRUE mystery.
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A Sense of Shadow by Kate Wilhelm (Paperback - August 1, 1982)
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