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Rosemary Edghill's Bast (a.k.a. Karen Hightower) is a modern-day witch and amateur detective whose investigations lead her through the colorful and exotic world of New York's occult underground. In Book of Moons, a series of puzzling thefts serves as a prelude to a shocking murder whose origins lurk centuries in the past. Every witch has a Book of Shadows: part recipe book, part liturgy, and part diary. Now someone is looking for one very odd, very special Book--and is willing to kill for show more it. Bast has few suspects and fewer clues, but where there's a witch, there's a way. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. show lessTags
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(Alistair) And now for short-review bookloggings of the books which I read during The Big Server Reinstall of August '08, which begins with this (something sitting in our duplicate pile that I happened to pick up "because it was there" during the long and boring part of the install - guess we'll be keeping it now), proceeds through the next three in the Sharon Green series I was reading some time ago, because I figured they'd be easy on the brain, and ends with the Stackpole & Allston X-Wing series of Star Wars books (which last I will not be booklogging because they deserve more attention than I could afford them at the time, being pretty out of it on sleeplessness and caffeine at that late stage).
On to this book, and what will be a show more very short review, due to the circumstances of reading. Awkwardly enough for me, this is actually the middle book of a trilogy (it was in the duplicate pile because we also own the collected trilogy, Bell, Book and Murder. But anyway, I liked it quite a lot, which is pretty good for a book picked up at complete random during a long night of reinstallation, and while I must confess the mystery genre is not usually my thing, evidently the mystery-set-among-modern-pagans-in-New-York genre is. Or at least this instantiation of it. Enough so that Bell, Book and Murder is on my to-be-read shelves for when I have more time and more sleep, which is something of a recommendation in itself, right? More to come when I get to that one.
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On to this book, and what will be a show more very short review, due to the circumstances of reading. Awkwardly enough for me, this is actually the middle book of a trilogy (it was in the duplicate pile because we also own the collected trilogy, Bell, Book and Murder. But anyway, I liked it quite a lot, which is pretty good for a book picked up at complete random during a long night of reinstallation, and while I must confess the mystery genre is not usually my thing, evidently the mystery-set-among-modern-pagans-in-New-York genre is. Or at least this instantiation of it. Enough so that Bell, Book and Murder is on my to-be-read shelves for when I have more time and more sleep, which is something of a recommendation in itself, right? More to come when I get to that one.
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What's distinctive about Book of Moons is that Edghill presents the Wiccan lore with dead-on insight that's both good humored and thoughtful. Her witches are sincere in their beliefs, but Bast, at least, cheerfully acknowledges modern neo-paganism's checkered history and the diverse, eccentric character of many of its adherents.
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Rosemary Edghill was born long enough ago to have seen Classic Trek on its first outing and to remember that she once thought Spock Must Die! to be great literature. As she aged, she put aside her fond dreams of taking over for Batman when he retired, and returned to her first love, writing. Her first SF sale (as eluki bes shahar) was the show more Hellflower series, in which Damon Runyon meets Doc Smith over at the old Bester place. Between books and short stories in every genre but the Western (several dozen so far), she's held the usual selection of odd and part-time writer jobs, including bookstore clerk, secretary, beta tester for computer software, graphic designer, book illustrator, library clerk, and administrative assistant for a non-profit arts organization. She can truthfully state that she once killed vampires for a living, and that without any knowledge of medicine has illustrated half-a-dozen medical textbooks show less
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- Canonical title
- Book of Moons
- Original publication date
- 1995-11
- People/Characters
- Mary, Queen of Scots; Bast (wiccan sleuth)
- Important places
- New York, New York, USA
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- 148
- Popularity
- 221,109
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.85)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 1
