Customer Reviews
A load of old waffle - By: Mrs. June Salmon, 04 Nov 2008 
I was so dissapointed with this book there was far to much waffle & over explaning. The story idea was good- new female vicar & her teenage daughter go off to a new parish to livein a huge old rectory they have to settlein etc, the daughter Jane is great getting up to teenage stuff & these bits make the book really good. The story centres around a 300 year old event about a priest that hung himself because he was accused of devil worship & it gets really boring when the book goes on & on about it, the book gets better although much later on but for me the over explaning & waffle out weighed the good bits.
very slow at first but picks up pace at end - By: love reading, 09 Dec 2007 
This is very well written; easy to read but completely believable & convincing. I did find the plot very very slow for the most part but when the story did start, it was great. I liked the genre. Although, I found the story slow, I will certainly read other Merrily Watkins books.
Addictive reading - By: Tabitha Clarke, 30 Mar 2007 
I have followed the Merrily Watkins series with interest & have enjoyed every single one of them, A strange sort of heroine & so unsure of herself, but her daughter Jane & old Gomer Parry are always on hand when things go wrong. All kinds of superstitions are looked at with this series & anyone who looks this kind of thing might like books by Frances Gordon as well who takes old fairy tales & gives them a VERY modern twist
Pink Moon is gonna get ye all - By: A. Watson, 29 Oct 2006 Rickman seduces you into his sleepy, pastoral village of Ledwardine with promises of home brewed cider & fairies at the bottom of the orchard. Only when it's too late for the reader/listener to catch the last bus home does he scratch away the surface to reveal the sordid underbelly of English country life dousedin incest, blood-feuds, rape & murder.
This, the first of the Merrily Watkins procedurals is a ghost story wrapped inside a mystery & bound tightly together with the twine of dark folklore. It also delivers a plot twist that gives the sort of jolt you would normally only expect from a gibbet trapdoor.
As always Rickman's dialogue is a joy as he fleshes out the various suicidal dreamers, quirky eccentrics & sexual predators who inhabit his strange little village. As Nick Drake, the quintessential lost soul himself, who makes an eerie cameo rolein the book says - The Pink Moon is gonna get you all!
Not bad. (I gave it 3 stars but somehow five came up!) - By: Patience, 24 Aug 2006 Although I quite enjoyed the first third of the book (perhapsin anticipation) I found myself getting rather bored at times with a story which is supposed to be 'entralling'. The charachters seem unrounded, Merrily remained totally unconvincing throughout & I agree with another reader who thought that Jane should have been the protagonist - she seemed to me to be the most convincing personality. The plot as a whole was well thought out but the quick scene changes is distracting & you never seem to have time to really 'get into' a scene before you're whipped off someplace else with the focus on other characters. I realise this technique is used to create tension but it failed for me here! The play -in -the- church scene was a complete let down after the countless pages leading up to it!
Not a bad read but nothing to get excited about!
