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Ghostlight

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

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Series: Witchlight (1), Occult Tales (4)

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What is the Truth? Truth Blackburn's father thought he knew what it was. Thorne Blackburn and his followers settled at Shadow's Gate, a magnificent old house in upstate New York, and sought the Truth about life through ritual and magic. One night, something went badly wrong during Thorne's most powerful ceremony. When the chaos had passed, Thorne had vanished, and Katherine, mother of Thorne's young daughter Truth, was dead. Thirty years later, Truth Blackburn searches for smaller truths: what really happened that night at Shadow's Gate? Did Thorne truly have magical powers? And what happened to her half-siblings, a boy and girl Truth last saw that horrible night when her mother died?… (more)
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Geestenlicht" is uit. Het is zeker geen aanrader. Ik ga niet eens de rest van de serie lezen. De plot rammelt aan alle kanten, de hoofdpersoon maakt vreemde gedachtesprongen die wat mij betreft niet verklaard worden door haar karakter of de omstandigheden en het flinterdunne liefdesdraadje is totaal niet interessant. Eerst dacht ik nog dat het aan mijn verwachtingen lag, maar het is gewoon een slecht boek. ( )
  weaver-of-dreams | Aug 1, 2023 |
didn't care for. I read the entire book, and wasn't impressed. ( )
  RobertaLea | Nov 27, 2021 |
Enjoyed; though I skimmed the ending because I wanted to go to sleep yet had to know how it would end. ( )
  ca.bookwyrm | May 18, 2020 |
Oh does this book stink! It's set in 1995 but all the time I was reading it I felt sure that it must have been written decades earlier - and when a Datsun drove up at the end it pretty much confirmed it. This novel must have been rotting at the bottom of a pile of rejects and only published in the hope that MZB's name could still sell it. The only non putrid part is the truth quotes at the beginning of each chapter. With a protagonist named Truth, which was a constant annoyance added to the no direction at all thrashing that substituted for plot, with everything semi-explained in the penultimate chapters, everything in this book is false, false, false. ( )
  quondame | Oct 13, 2018 |
Good read, but not as memorable as Witchlight. ( )
  akaGingerK | Sep 30, 2018 |
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Epigraph
Beholding the bright countenance
of truth in the quiet and still
air of delightful studies.
 

    —
John Milton
This is the truth the poet sings,

That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is

   remembering happier things.
 

    —Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Truth, poor child, was nobody's daughter
She took off her clothes and jumped in the water
 

    —Dorothy L. Sayers
We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only truth.
 

    —Voltaire
Through the unheeding many he did move,

A splendour among the shadows, a bright blot

Upon this gloomy scene, a Spirit that strove

For truth, and like the Preacher found it not.
 

    —Percy Bysshe Shelley
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North of New York City, along the edge of the Hudson River, there is a small estate lying between the railroad tracks of Metro North and the broad expanse of the river.
Prologue: The freak spring storm battered the old house with unceasing ferocity, as if attempting to gain entry to that which went on within.
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What is the Truth? Truth Blackburn's father thought he knew what it was. Thorne Blackburn and his followers settled at Shadow's Gate, a magnificent old house in upstate New York, and sought the Truth about life through ritual and magic. One night, something went badly wrong during Thorne's most powerful ceremony. When the chaos had passed, Thorne had vanished, and Katherine, mother of Thorne's young daughter Truth, was dead. Thirty years later, Truth Blackburn searches for smaller truths: what really happened that night at Shadow's Gate? Did Thorne truly have magical powers? And what happened to her half-siblings, a boy and girl Truth last saw that horrible night when her mother died?

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