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Spider Light

Author: Sarah Rayne
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Category: Book

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

9 reviews
Sales Rank: 336718

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.2

ISBN: 0743257324
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780743257329
ASIN: 0743257324

Publication Date: August 7, 2006
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5 out of 5 stars

HHOOOOEEEEEEEE June 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I bought this on the strength of the previous reviews and I am so glad that I did.

I love this type of creepy, scary stuff. I was reading cooking the dinner and everywhere else - great read..

Highly recommended - off to read the rest of Ms Raynes works

5 out of 5 stars

SCARY AND HUGELY ENJOYABLE January 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I was a recent convert to Sarah Rayne's books and had some trepidation when I picked up this latest one that it would not be as good as the others. I needn't have worried. She is still on top form, and I cannot wait for her next one to come along and scare me just as much. If I say that, in spite of everything, I didn't want the book to end that tells you just how much I enjoyed it.

5 out of 5 stars

Absolutely vintage Rayne! October 24, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

Spider Light is a great read - a compelling story of a young doctor trying to find escape from her own tragic past by moving to a remote cottage. But once she's there, she becomes affected by lingering images and emotions of people who lived in the cottage a hundred years ago.
The book spans two time-strands which currently seems to be a successful method adopted by Rayne: In the present, our doctor is stalked by an enemy who's out for revenge; and in 1900, a young girl is warned by her unstable mother to beware of the `spider light' which can hide things best left undisturbed. It's only when the girl becomes the target for the lady of the manor's lustful appetites that she starts to find out exactly what the spider light really does hide.
Over-shadowing both time-frames is the old watermill, `Twygrist', which has its own dark history, and which has to be one of Rayne's spookiest settings yet!
This is perhaps a more `domestic' plot than the dramatic Roots of Evil, but for me that made it all the more accessible and acceptable. The characters are brilliantly drawn, and again as varied and believable as Rayne's characters always are. But best of all, there's the trademark darkness and macabre atmosphere throughout.
It's absolutely gripping, unput-downable, but beware - it's not one to read late at night!

5 out of 5 stars

Unusual and absorbing October 21, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

The `spider light' of Sarah Rayne's setting is absolutely as creepy and eerie as the book's jacket says.
It's a really absorbing story that links the macabre history of a little market town to the more recent history of a doctor who's trying to start a new life there and who has her own ghosts to struggle against. The suspense really pulls you deeper in with each page, and I loved the contrast in all the characters - from the sherry-tippling matron of Latchkill Asylum and the predatory lesbian Thomasina in the early 1900s, to the scary and sinister Donna who has a score to settle in the present.
A strongly recommended read!

5 out of 5 stars

Unusual and absorbing October 21, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

The `spider light' of Sarah Rayne's setting is absolutely as creepy and eerie as the book's jacket says.
It's a really absorbing story that links the macabre history of a little market town to the more recent history of a doctor who's trying to start a new life there and who has her own ghosts to struggle against. The suspense really pulls you deeper in with each page, and I loved the contrast in all the characters - from the sherry-tippling matron of Latchkill Asylum and the predatory lesbian Thomasina in the early 1900s, to the scary and sinister Donna who has a score to settle in the present.
A strongly recommended read!