![]() ![]() ![]() While the windings of hope and despair are dramatized in ways that are somewhat repetitious, Ms. This ultimate battle is on the supernatural plane, and its sensory pyrotechnics are amazingly vivid. Suspense is maintained through the ups and downs in the relationship between Annabel and Jevan, in the battle for power in and out of the marriage between Alex and Annabel, and between Alex’s father and anyone who stands in his way -especially Annabel. They are defined by their meeting places and by their emotion-driven actions. As characters scurry back and forth to meet one another, they move against a very real, if remote, landscape. Her descriptions of nature, architecture, furnishings and garments are vivid and evocative. The author’s stage setting is enormously powerful. ![]() Witchcraft is part of the lineage and legacy of the key families, sometimes exercising beneficial power, sometimes bringing only evil. It is a pattern encroaching on the present - and perhaps the future. The history of women married into the Saltonstall family reveals a pattern of early deaths and bouts of madness. Haunting voices and images suggest a relationship between the restless, agonized spirits of the dead and the destinies of the living. It is also the place in which the novel’s paranormal or supernatural dimensions exhibit themselves. Gothelstone Manor, the Saltonstall estate, becomes Annabel’s prison. ![]()
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