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“Brackston obviously wanted to humanize and defend Wicca, removing from it the stigma of devil worship and dark magic. Her heroine, Elizabeth, is given over to a warlock’s care and is taught what he knows, but she rejects that darkness and escapes, preferring to live anonymously for eternity as a healer, in that job’s various guises. She sees surgery in the 1800s, WWI, and ends up in a small English town selling herbs at a local market. She meets a young woman who is desperate for someone to admire and look up to. Elizabeth begins to teach her magic, and it is only through that passing-on of knowledge, and creation of another white witch, that she is able to achieve defeat of the evil warlock from her past and move on to death. A very good story, very well told, and very human.”
Alethea wrote this review Sunday, September 11, 2011.
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