5 out of 5 stars
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How I discovered this book: Twitter; have read and enjoyed others by this author before.
In a Nutshell: Eerie visions in an old family house in Wales, at the turn of the 20th Century.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which I read in just a few days. Grace Morgan from Vermont inherits the old family home in Newport, South Wales and, after the death of her mother, makes the decision to move back there with faithful maid Lilah. Family mysteries and secrets abound, and Grace begins to have curious visions, as did her mother.
A Moonlit Path of Madness is a quieter work of the supernatural horror genre - I'm not much of a one for ghoulies and ghosties, but this is more about the emotions of the characters than things that go bump in the night. Those emotions are so well portrayed, the whole story so atmospheric - and who could resist that glorious cover? The writing flows, and I was completely immersed all the time I was reading it, eager to know what would happen, wrong about most of my predictions, which is always a plus!
I've just tried to write about the ending three times and deleted each time, because it's hard to do so without giving clues, so I'll simply say that it's just right, with an essence of melancholia that fits so well with the rest of the story
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