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As you can see from my rating, I liked this book quite a lot, which is a bit of surprise since the elements of the book really didn't work for me all that well. The thing is that Mary Stewart can just WRITE, you guys. I love reading her books because she is able to create these evocative settings that gently carry me away . . . to beautiful, crumbling manors where people can communicate through telepathy with their cousin, whom they refer to as "lover."

Ack.

I really, really, really hate the term lover. It immediately makes me think of wife-swapping, leisure suit wearing, eye-brow waggling dudes from the 1970's, swathed in gold chains over their hairy, hairy chests. Why must you do this to me, Ms. Stewart? Every time our heroine, Bryony, uses the word lover, I basically see this:

and this

Not this:

or this

So, that happened.

But, anyway, aside from the whole cousin-love as plot point (ergh) and the yucky 1970's sex vibe, this book was a lot of fun. Oh, and did I mention that Bryony is dumb as a post?

What DID I like about this book again?

I really don't know. I just know that I really enjoyed it, in spite of all of the things I disliked about it. And that pretty much describes my relationship with Mary Stewart.