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the stories are pretty-good-to-excellent, but the organization of this is poor; Jon Breen's Introduction is wonderful as usual, but Perry's Forward to the collection and, indeed, the selection of the stories, was quite poor. I wonder if she had anything to actually do with the selection? If so, then she's made a right botch of it. yes, I am going to be ranting in the full review!

slow, but well-written and interesting, especially the characters, although am having a bit of trouble with some odd viewpoint shifts (and a Pet Peeve - they're in italics -sigggh-)...

very intriguing, good characters, scene setting, great premise, might slide a bit too sweetly cosy, though, shows some tendancy that way (the initial finding of victim was a bit "cuuuute!" -sigggh-) but really like the titular character.

wonderful writing, pulls you right in - small near-Wales village during WW2, a missing girl, evacuees, and a mysterious Professor there to "investigate" the local standing stones.

my first summertime treat this year! when I can't travel in actuality I always used to also "go there" in books! hoping to do that sort of thing again this year. Character Merry Folger is interesting but at about 20% in am finding the large amount (to me, ymmv) of fluffy-romantic stuff to be intrusive, borderline annoying... but good writing overall for a first book, hope she settles down into the investigation!

Nth reread but now want to review for GR. It's one of my fave go-to audios for just-before-sleep winding-downs.

Nth reread, this is oe of my fave "relax..." books. also want to review for GR.

love Morris's 'tude, sooo slyly funny

love Morris's 'tude, sooo slyly funny

saw author inHUNGRY FOR CHANGE video, liked what he said and how he said it! Interesting, informed look at body chemistry and the difficulties of losing weight.

surprisingly good, not as floridly tacky HIBK-ish as back cover indicates - her characters afe very good and the pacing while slow moves well

first read this twenty years ago, yikes! Rereading now so can post review AND just to enjoy Ms. Macleod's lovely, snarky way with humor. What a wonderful writer she was! (she died in the early 2000s from Alzheimers).

audio via CDs, have listened to 6 of 15 - one of my fave King novels AND a "comfort read" (grin) for me. And, yeah, it was miscast but I thoroughly enjoyed the TV miniseries with David Soul too - it was that which introduced me to King in the first place, and what a wonderful gift that has turned out to be! (STAND is one of my all-time favorite novels of all)

audio, have listened to two of 7 tracks via MP3, a bit too "YA sexy" for my tastes, but I love the show and this, while QUITE different, is rather fun.