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Legacy Kindle Edition

by Steven William Rimmer (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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The iron box is five centuries old and thick with rust, but the secret it contains still smells faintly of the wetness of blood. Two men have come to the coven, once more to ignite the embers of treachery which have concealed it.

In the long-awaited sequel to Coven, Elspet returns to the magic of her birthright and desperately seeks the truth behind the madness which has befallen her.

AUTHOR'S COMMENTS: Legacy was my first genuine sequel. It formed a much belated second chapter to Coven, my first novel.

Coven, and hence Legacy, are set in a coven of witches who dwell in a secluded valley in Wales, largely forgotten by the world. I hasten to point out that none of them wear pointy hats or display bumper-stickers that read "my other car is a broom." Bereft of Hollywood and a few hundred years of christian propaganda, witches are people who worship the old fertility gods, and seek to understand the ways of the land.

The word "witch" is from the middle English "wycc," which means "to bend." It survives today in the word "wicker," which means "cheap furniture you dare not sit on." Witches were thought to be able to bend nature to their wills - which well they might have done, when no one was watching.

Legacy, like Coven to some extent, is about corruption. The witches have something a shadowy character from beyond the coven appears to want, and some of their number have been persuaded to have a look 'round for it. Sufficiently persuaded, they eventually turn to murdering a few of their own to facilitate their search - it's surprising how persuasive an American Express card can be amongst people who've never seen bottled milk.

Such it is that Elspet, the heroine from Coven, is drawn into the tawdry schemes of the other witches. Some of her friends turn out to be sneakier than the outsiders she's been brought up to distrust. In time, she learns that she can trust almost no one. Corruption does that, even in a society which Elspet describes as "the last survivors of the middle ages."

I've been surprised at how well Legacy's sold since it's release in 2006 - especially considering that the book it's a sequel to was originally published two decades earlier. Out of necessity, it's very much a self-standing novel - a great many of the readers of it who've sent e-mail about it hadn't read Coven, and didn't seem to be at much of a disadvantage in confronting Legacy.

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441 pages
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28 January 2009
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00BPDVJDS
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Alchemy Mindworks (28 January 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 693 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 441 pages

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A wander through Wales

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 November 2012

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Another bit of light but compelling reading, marred by annoying "T'is" attempts to portray an old form of Northern English.

William A. Nolan

Another good read

Reviewed in the United States on 22 May 2013

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I very much enjoy the books of Steven William Rimmer. He writes about witchcraft in a very different way, as the witches are the heroes and heroines of his novels. This book was an excellent sequel to Coven. I also enjoy that his female characters are strong and well developed -- not just there to give the men something to rescue. The main character says, near the end, "T'is not as you'd imagine, up here... a witch isn't just a lass in old fashioned clothing." A minor inaccuracy: Mr. Rimmer, being Canadian, probably has little experience with handguns, and thus is not aware that revolvers don't have (or need) safeties.

nwagh1947

Book no, software yes

Reviewed in the United States on 26 February 2018

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(Yawn) I give a book 1 chapter to capture me. I gave this book 4 chapters before I gave up. Just not interesting and moves way too slowly. But this guy makes a wonderful photo program called Graphics Workshop. Check it out! I've used it for about 10 years.