The Shape of Darkness: 'A future gothic classic' Martyn Waites
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'It truly kept me guessing to the very last page' SONIA VELTON
Wicked deeds require the cover of darkness...
A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead - and to try and identify their killers - in this beguiling new tale from Laura Purcell.
Silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then one of her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes, and then another, and another...
Desperately seeking an answer, Agnes approaches Pearl, a child spirit medium lodging in Bath with her older half-sister and her ailing father, hoping that if Pearl can make contact with those who died, they might reveal who killed them. But Agnes and Pearl quickly discover that instead they may have opened the door to something that they can never put back...
What secrets lie hidden in the darkness?
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Das Buch war für mich weniger gruselig als Die stillen Gefährten und das Korsett, aber dennoch unglaublich spannend. Für mich das beste der drei Bücher. Ich finde hier auch neu, dass mir beide Hauptcharaktere (ja, es gibt wieder 2 Figuren denen man folgt) von Anfang an sympathisch waren, in den anderen Büchern fand ich die Charaktere eher unsympathisch. Das hat hier ein anderes Gefühl beim Lesen erzeugt, weil ich wollte, dass es beiden Frauen gut geht.
What I like about Laura Purcell's books is that she doesn't give any final answers about what "really" happened once the story is over. As with [b:The Corset|39098246|The Corset|Laura Purcell|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1521746242l/39098246._SY75_.jpg|60683917], I wasn't quite as creeped out as with [b:The Silent Companions|35458733|The Silent Companions|Laura Purcell|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1500725504l/35458733._SY75_.jpg|55746774] - or as October might have required. But I adored the atmosphere of this former fashionable "spa" town, now in decline and haunted by bad memories, mediums and ghost hunters. The end was, in parts, heart-breaking, and in other parts maybe one spin and twist too many. Still, I'd recommend this if you're looking for a gothic tale with a moderate amount of creepiness.
What I like about Laura Purcell's books is that she doesn't give any final answers about what "really" happened once the story is over. As with [b:The Corset|39098246|The Corset|Laura Purcell|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1521746242l/39098246._SY75_.jpg|60683917], I wasn't quite as creeped out as with [b:The Silent Companions|35458733|The Silent Companions|Laura Purcell|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1500725504l/35458733._SY75_.jpg|55746774] - or as October might have required. But I adored the atmosphere of this former fashionable "spa" town, now in decline and haunted by bad memories, mediums and ghost hunters. The end was, in parts, heart-breaking, and in other parts maybe one spin and twist too many. Still, I'd recommend this if you're looking for a gothic tale with a moderate amount of creepiness.
Dense, dark and full of ghosts
Even though I valued it only with a 3. The narrative is good and portrays all kinds of monsters, ghouls and ghosts that one can encounter in their life. I love how the reader does not only keep trying to figure out what the hell is happening, what is real and what is not, but Laura Purcell also throws plot twists here and there. The only reason why I'm not rating it higher is because the first 200 pages were a bit too dense for me and I struggled to keep reading.
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'It truly kept me guessing to the very last page' SONIA VELTON
Wicked deeds require the cover of darkness...
A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead - and to try and identify their killers - in this beguiling new tale from Laura Purcell.
Silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then one of her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes, and then another, and another...
Desperately seeking an answer, Agnes approaches Pearl, a child spirit medium lodging in Bath with her older half-sister and her ailing father, hoping that if Pearl can make contact with those who died, they might reveal who killed them. But Agnes and Pearl quickly discover that instead they may have opened the door to something that they can never put back...
What secrets lie hidden in the darkness?
Book Information
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Das Buch war für mich weniger gruselig als Die stillen Gefährten und das Korsett, aber dennoch unglaublich spannend. Für mich das beste der drei Bücher. Ich finde hier auch neu, dass mir beide Hauptcharaktere (ja, es gibt wieder 2 Figuren denen man folgt) von Anfang an sympathisch waren, in den anderen Büchern fand ich die Charaktere eher unsympathisch. Das hat hier ein anderes Gefühl beim Lesen erzeugt, weil ich wollte, dass es beiden Frauen gut geht.
What I like about Laura Purcell's books is that she doesn't give any final answers about what "really" happened once the story is over. As with [b:The Corset|39098246|The Corset|Laura Purcell|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1521746242l/39098246._SY75_.jpg|60683917], I wasn't quite as creeped out as with [b:The Silent Companions|35458733|The Silent Companions|Laura Purcell|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1500725504l/35458733._SY75_.jpg|55746774] - or as October might have required. But I adored the atmosphere of this former fashionable "spa" town, now in decline and haunted by bad memories, mediums and ghost hunters. The end was, in parts, heart-breaking, and in other parts maybe one spin and twist too many. Still, I'd recommend this if you're looking for a gothic tale with a moderate amount of creepiness.
What I like about Laura Purcell's books is that she doesn't give any final answers about what "really" happened once the story is over. As with [b:The Corset|39098246|The Corset|Laura Purcell|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1521746242l/39098246._SY75_.jpg|60683917], I wasn't quite as creeped out as with [b:The Silent Companions|35458733|The Silent Companions|Laura Purcell|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1500725504l/35458733._SY75_.jpg|55746774] - or as October might have required. But I adored the atmosphere of this former fashionable "spa" town, now in decline and haunted by bad memories, mediums and ghost hunters. The end was, in parts, heart-breaking, and in other parts maybe one spin and twist too many. Still, I'd recommend this if you're looking for a gothic tale with a moderate amount of creepiness.
Dense, dark and full of ghosts
Even though I valued it only with a 3. The narrative is good and portrays all kinds of monsters, ghouls and ghosts that one can encounter in their life. I love how the reader does not only keep trying to figure out what the hell is happening, what is real and what is not, but Laura Purcell also throws plot twists here and there. The only reason why I'm not rating it higher is because the first 200 pages were a bit too dense for me and I struggled to keep reading.