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Wyntertide: Rotherweird | ANDREW. CALDECOTT
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'Intricate and crisp, witty and solemn: a book with special and dangerous properties,' Hilary Mantel said of Rotherweird, the first book in the series; M.R. Carey called it 'Baroque, Byzantine and beautiful - not to mention bold'. The town of Rotherweird, independent from the rest of England since Elizabeth I, has resumed its abnormal normality after a happy ending to the travails of summer. But is it really all over? Disturbing omens multiply: a funeral delivers a cryptic warning; an ancient portrait speaks; the Herald disappears - and democracy threatens the covenant between town and countryside. An intricate plot, centuries in the making, is on the move. Everything is pointing to one objective: the resurrection of Rotherweird's dark Elizabethan past, and to one date: the Winter Solstice. In Rotherweird, nothing and nobody are quite what they seem.
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rwmg
Wyntertide: Rotherweird | ANDREW. CALDECOTT
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I got halfway through this and realised I just didn't care enough to read another book and a half of the trilogy

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All the High Street shops had been commandeered by dealers whose exotic banners hung over the names of Hoy‘s humdrum traders, from Holzbucher of Leipzig to Bibulous Bishop Books. Beastly Bindings had taken over the stationery shop, while Vesper‘s Erotica nestled on the top floor of Hoy‘s electrical store. Cars had been banished to accommodate a fleet of barrows tenanted by less affluent dealers.

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Wyntertide: Rotherweird | ANDREW. CALDECOTT
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I enjoyed Rothereird so much I was glad to have a chance to read the sequel. The world building is so rich and enchanting while also a little unsettling. An the characters are so flawed and human but still so likeable.

eshchory Another great episode in this saga that explains a lot while the plot still thickens. Now I can't weight for the final book. 6y
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