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The Magus Of Hay (2014)

by Phil Rickman(Favorite Author)

4.15 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0857898655 (ISBN13: 9780857898654)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Atlantic Books

series

Merrily Watkins

review 1: Hmmmm I liked this but I would suggest it's weak compared to other books in this series. This one is focused on the book lovers haven of Hay-on-Wye and a long forgotten mystery there. The main story was about neo-nazis in the borderlands and I think there is a real story there but this didn't really do it justice. It seemed oddly dull, it lacked the sense of menace that the other books have and the usual characters (Lol, Gomer etc) were mostly absent it felt rather like attending a party and your friends haven't shown up. It was OK but it would have better if they were there. The subplots didn't feel particularly well tied in either so overall one for fans of the series but defibately not the place to start.
review 2: A welcome return to the characters and plac... morees of the Merrily Watkins series and in particular, the spirit of the border lands. Phil writes about this with such great understanding and appreciation it is almost another character in the story. Weaving paganism, Christianity, occultism and spirit of place effortlessly and seamlessly into a plot-driven novel is no easy task and yet he does so with extreme skill. This isn't a horror book, although it would be true to say that it is a book that contains certain horrors. It would be a disservice to categorise it within a specific genre; certainly there are elements of the supernatural but this is not really the driving force of the story. This is a tale about people and place and especially how one affects the other. less

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