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Bezig met laden... The Inheritor (1984)door Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Review coming! ( ) Leslie Barnes, a psychologist, and her younger sister move into a lovely house in San Francisco. Leslie's looking forward to starting a new practice, and her sister to studying music. Soon, they both meet Simon Anstey, who seems to have a romantic interest in Leslie - and, coincidentally, is an acclaimed music teacher. But strange occurences and auras seem to surround the house, and the two women seem to be the focus of benevolent but intense interest from the local Pagan community. I very much enjoyed reading this book as a fun haunted house/occult tale, and appreciated that between the previous book in this series (Dark Satanic) and this one, Bradley seemed to have read up on her modern paganism, and incorporated it nicely into the story. However, the ending of this book was extremely problematic, on not just an ethical but a practical level. There are things that both cannot and should not be forgiven - especially not just at the drop of a hat. Among these things I would count murder, rape, and using magical (or any other sort of) influence to induce people to do fairly dreadful things against their will. Being selfishly traumatized is not an excuse for these sort of crimes, and an "oh, sorry" does not atone for them. It's a quite befuddling ending, and I would really like to know if Bradley ever explained why she wrote it this way. Something of a modern gothic horror novel, set in San Francisco in the early 1980's, it's kind of... atmospheric and weird. Leslie is an unwilling psychic; it's nothing she wants or can control, but occasionally she has had glimpses of missing/murdered people, and has worked with the police to help them find these people. Her day job is as a psychologist, and she is also the guardian for her 17-year old sister,a musical prodigy. Weird, unexplained things are happening, even before they move into a house previously owned by another psychologist psychic. Some modern readers may be appalled at the immorality of Leslie dumping boyfriend A and quickly falling into bed with boyfriend B; that's just "not done" in contemporary romance these days, though as a lifestyle in the 1970's and 1980's, really no big deal, and a younger reader might be even more interested in that "taste" of the period. My problem is that Leslie seems too willing to bend over backwards to overlook the creepiness of Simon, boyfriend B; even to him having definitely killed a cat and perhaps even murdered a junkie prostitute in a dark ritual for his own gain. Oh, and he might be willing to sacrifice the little sister, too. While I appreciate that in the end, every human being is shown as redeemable, capable of being brought into the light, and Leslie and Simon are presented as having a HEA, in some ways, that's even worse. It's a spine-tingling, suitably Halloween-y story, and well-written, but the ending doesn't feel satisfying to me. Strange things are happening to clinical psychologist Leslie Barnes. Psychic visions appear from nowhere, and after helping police find the body of a missing girl, Leslie’s psychic visions continue to haunt her. In an effort to escape from the madness (and the press), Leslie buys an old house overlooking the San Francisco Bay. But instead of escaping her psychic visions, Leslie finds more in her house than she bargained for--objects crashing in the night, the ghost of a murdered cat, and a mysterious world of pagans and psychics. Set in modern times, this gothic tale will keep you turning the pages to see who or what will pop up next. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Colin MacLaren (1) De Licht Serie (Book 0) Licht serie (2) Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Bastei Lübbe Taschenbuch (14981 & 77271)
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