This is a sequel to Susan Hill's classic ghost story The Woman in Black; or to be more accurate, this is a novelisation of a film which is a sequel to a film version of Hill's novel, starring Daniel Radcliffe. While it lacks the classic Gothic writing style of Hill, I thought this was nevertheless a very good sequel, with an atmosphere of pure horror throughout. It is the Blitz and a group of children is evacuated from London to isolated Eel Marsh House somewhere in the north east of the country. If possible, the spectre of Jennet Humfrye seems even more malevolent here than in the original. There are some tragic and heart-breaking incidents here, paving the way towards an ambiguous conclusion. Very good in its own right, albeit not of Susan Hill's calibre. ( )

This is the novelization of ''Angel of Death'', the mediocre sequel to ''The Woman In Black'' , a 2012 beautiful film based on the novella by Susan Hill. An attempt to cash out on the success of the first film, it verifies the rule of the sequels. The book is as good as the movie and that means average at best. There's nothing to write home about, really. Other than its striking front cover, the characters are weak, irritating, the ''scares'' badly-written. It certainly can't hold a candle to the original. Worth reading only for the atmospheric setting, amidst the time of the Blitz, during the Second World War. ( )

Autumn 1940, World War Two, the Blitz. Bombs are raining down, destroying the cities of Britain.

In London, children are being removed from their families and taken to the country for safety.

Teacher Eve Parkins is in charge of one such group, and her destination is an empty and desolate house that appears to be sinking into the treacherous tidal marshes that surround it.

EEL MARSH HOUSE

Far from home and with no alternative, Eve and the children move in.

But soon it becomes apparent that there is someone else in the house; someone who is far deadlier than any number of German bombs ...

The Woman in Black.

Was well written enough but just so far away from the concept of the original it might as well have been a completely different story...a dramatisation of the screenplay for the forthcoming film ( )