DARK WATER

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This paragon suddenly becomes a ravening beast, ripping open the throat of an annoying officer with his bare teeth. The author’s writing is so expressive and stirring from the very start there’s no escaping the reader being transported to the port at Batavia, where the sights, sounds and smells encourage you to feel you’re actually standing watching the opening chapters, with a leper appearing to pronounce the devil. She is a determined woman with a mind of her own who has been suppressed by the lowly role of women in the 17th century. While I enjoyed the read it’s not one for my favorites shelf although I will be adding my hard copy to my real life bookshelf.

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But even with Turton’s methodical unfurling of the novel’s layers, the core mystery of The Devil and the Dark Water is virtually unsolvable.Is the demon “Old Tom” real, or only a Scooby Doo-style player in one of the many onboard commercial and political factions? They’re a rare source of light and good on a cursed ship where the crew is vicious, the passengers untrustworthy, and the devil “Old Tom” appears to hold sway. For Rolling Stone, Peter Travers wrote, "A classy ghost story is just the ticket in a summer of crass jolts. Travelling on the ship is Sammy Pipps, a famous detective, a prisoner set to be executed in Amsterdam, accompanied by his loyal bodyguard, Lieutenant Arent Hayes, a relationship that echoes that of Sherlock Holmes and Watson.

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The tale features grim and gruesome moments aplenty, with content that is definitely for adults and is occasionally uncomfortable to read. Following a long-drawn-out, insinuating show of kindness he later tempts his saintly employer into morphine addiction and then usurps the man’s position. Its a very, very, very long kinda okay historical "thriller" with so very many characters and despite its taking place in the 1600's said characters frequently ask each other "are you okay" and all the women are very ahead of their time (one of my "favorite" things in historical fiction) and we've got the typical giant manly man who's a hardened mercenary but really gentle and kind and lots of people who believe in witchcraft and husbands beating their wives and a million and one reasons for me to never, ever set foot on a boat should time travel become a thing that allows me to travel to afor mentioned 1600's and everything is very dirty and disgusting and so there are pomanders which I very much think we should bring back particularly in the current climate and no one is who they seem and even if it looks like witchcraft clearly there's a logical explanation and DEAR GOD THIS BOOK WAS SOOOOO LONG.Instead of “we’re going to need a bigger boat”, this book is more “we’re going to need a less demon infested boat”. T he Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle– a curiously invigorating mix of genres described by its publishers as “ Gosford Park meets Inception, by way of Agatha Christie” – won the 2018 Costa award for best first novel. Every character in that book was so different and each new POV brought new questions and discoveries.