After the last book it took me a while to get into anything else. I was never in the mood for whatever I picked up and so struggled to keep up with my reading. However, fuelled by a craving to read something with magic I picked up the Magic Cottage by James Herbert because it's the only vaguely magicky book I own that I haven't already read.
At the time of buying this novel from a charity shop, I was unaware of Herbert's work and the premise of magic lured me in. However, I was soon told that he was a horror writer and that mum wouldn't read his books because they were too scary. That made me nervous, but for the most part I was fine. That was until the last couple of chapters anyway, which rather put me on edge when going to bed the night I finished it.
The Magic Cottage is a gripping novel filled with mystery and the deep nature of dark magic. It is told from Mike's perspective; a musician, who with his partner Midge decides to move to the countryside from the city. A cottage in the New Forest by the name of Gramarye draws Midge's attention and the two move in. However, strange things start to happen that are seemingly explainable but deep down they both know that something more sinister is at work.
A far departure from my usual genre, I wasn't sure what to make of this book, but I did enjoy it for the most part. There were times I was scared to go to sleep out of fear of hearing bats in the attic, but that's just the nature of horror stories and I don't think I'll be reading many more. For what it was, the Magic Cottage was very well written and always carried a tone of foreboding and suspense, but as a general rule of thumb I think I'll stick to lighter fantasy books.
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