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Book Review of Witchlight (Light, Bk 2) (Audio CD) (Abridged)

Witchlight (Light, Bk 2) (Audio CD) (Abridged)
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Bradley gives us another modern gothic yarn, similar to her Ghostlight and involving some of the same characters without, however, actually being a sequel. Winter Musgrave is being haunted by vague, incomplete memories of a past in which she suspects something horrible happened. From the earlier book, Truth Jourdemayne comes to Winter's rescue, establishing that Winter must reconstruct a long-gone magical circle of college friends to fully restore her memories. This well-told tale full of both the virtues and the faults of the gothic genre, modernized or not, demands high tolerance for the New Age, since both its mythic basis and its setting involve New Age elements. Bradley's dedicated fans and those who liked Ghostlight will meet that demand and make their own--to read Witchlight