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    A Crown of Lights
    A Crown of Lights
    A Crown of Lights
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    A Crown of Lights

    By Phil Rickman

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    Exorcist Reverend Merrily Watkins is challenged by a modern day witch hunt, in her third adventure

    When a redundant church is bought by a young pagan couple, the local fundamentalist minister reacts with fury. In an isolated community on the Welsh border, a modern witch hunt begins. Diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins is expected to keep the lid on the cauldron, but what she finds out will seriously test her beliefs. Also, there's the problem of the country lawyer who won't be parted from his dead wife; the mystery of five ancient churches all dedicated to St. Michael, slayer of dragons; and a killer with an old tradition to guard.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtlantic Books
    Release dateAug 1, 2011
    ISBN9780857890184
    A Crown of Lights
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    Phil Rickman

    PHIL RICKMAN lives on the Welsh border where he writes and presents the book programme Phil the Shelf on BBC Radio Wales. He is the hugely popular author of The Bones of Avalon, The Heresy of Dr Dee and the Merrily Watkins Mysteries.

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    • 4/5
      Although this book moved a bit slower than I would like from time to time, it's still an excellent blend of characterization, plot, and atmosphere. I would imagine many people who pick up one of Rickman's Merrily Watkins novels might put it right back on the shelf when they read words like "supernatural," "exorcist," or "horror." To each his own, but I would love to suggest to these folks that they might want to give his books a try. The connotations that swirl around the words that I mentioned have more to do with the passage of centuries and the shifting focus of human belief systems. Rickman's books have everything to do with buried secrets that have been allowed to fester and taint those who would hide this information than they have to do with specters and things that go bump in the night. His plots are built solidly upon the rock of human frailty, and the hints of the supernatural serve as wisps of fog touching the corners of your vision and making the hairs on the back of your neck rise. The friction between Christianity and paganism was extremely well done here, and I had no clue what was really going on until the reveal.A good solid story with the tantalizing taste of the otherworldly only works when guided by a strong cast of characters. Merrily Watkins is priest, exorcist, mother-- a smart, brave, and compassionate woman committed to doing what's right and good for people-- oftentimes against the advice of church hierarchy. (Merrily believes in helping people regardless of their church affiliation-- or lack thereof.) She calls her teenage daughter "flower" and although Jane is the usual prickly moodswinging adolescent with more than a passing interest in the occult, she's basically a good kid who loves her mother. In fact Jane and her boyfriend of the moment Eirion (Jane always thinks of him as "Irene") not only supply some of the thrills and chills in A Crown of Lights, they add some of the humor that's needed to leaven a rather dark tale.My interest in the supernatural is superficial at best, and if that's all Phil Rickman's books had to offer, I wouldn't read them. Everything he writes is rooted firmly in humanity-- our mistakes that frighten and shame us, and the lengths to which we will go to hide and protect those mistakes-- and in the history and immeasurable passage of time in this area of the Welsh borders. Several times in reading A Crown of Lights, I was reminded of an evening when my husband and I were driving through the English countryside and the tower of an ancient church loomed suddenly above me out of the dark and the fog. Phil Rickman is a master of character, of blending history and belief, and of atmosphere. Whenever I read a Merrily Watkins book and feel "a tighter breathing, And zero at the bone," I smile.
    • 3/5
      Part of a solid series with an interesting setting and sympathetic continuing characters. This episode, though, is not the best--too many plot elements, none of them compelling, no strong focus. Least "occult" of the series I've read.
    • 3/5
      The third Merrily Watkins book. This time we see a mixture of evangelism and paganism. For some reason I always struggle with this book. The pagan couple Robin and Betty seem too bland whilst fundamentalist priest Nick Ellis comes across as unhinged to me. Aside from Merrily and co, you don't really have sympathy for the characters and therefore I'm never that bothered about the outcome.
    • 5/5
      Phil Rickman's books about the Reverend Merrily Watkins are impossible to categorize and to place in a specific genre. They are so unique that they should have their own genre. His writing is mesmerizing, and the books almost impossible to put down once begun. Each book in the series is a perfect gem - a wonderful mystery, great characters, more than a taste of the supernatural, and gripping plots. This book puts Merrily and her daughter Jane in the middle of a maestrom that is fueled by an evangelist priest and a powerful wiccan. It all takes place in a tiny little village right on the Welsh border where secrets have been kept for so long, they actually become part of the atmosphere. The book held me enthralled right until the very end. I can't say enough about this wonderful and provocative series.
    • 3/5
      Betty and Robin Thorogood are two pagans who have bought a de-comissioned church. Merrily Watkins is the local exorcist and a local vicar. There's rumours of some unorthodox activities by the rector in the same dioceses. The bishop asks Merrily to go on TV to talk in a trash-chat-show, because she's the only available person who is suitable for the job. There's also some issues about the history of the churches in the area and rumours of a Dragon.All making it sound like my kind of book. Indeed it was for a while until it fell into the trap of painting Pagans as all being delusional, with the subtext of the "Pagan Conspiracy" to bring evil back that one of the teenagers finds out about. Gah. The book left with with a bit of a bad taste and although it had great potential it failed to impress.
    • 3/5
      Hereford Diocese exorcist Rev.Merrily Watkins is dispatched to cool things down when a Revivalist Minister starts inciting hatred of a young pagan couple that have bought an ex church. She finds that the locals are concealing plenty of nasty secrets

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