![]() ![]() At times I noticed that too, partly because the principal characters, Angel and Seth, are teens. One of the other readers in the group observed that Black Creek Crossing felt like a young adult novel. I read this during the annual Supernatural Fiction Readers group read on Goodreads. ![]() The long ago New England villages of the witch trials promoted intolerance and ignorance, and author John Saul capitalizes on this historical setting to deepen the sense of impending doom. This indifference and these inhumane acts fester in a cesspool of insularity-the same insularity that existed in this town and others like it during the Colonial Era. The church knows, the school knows, the parents know, and yet no one intervenes. The community of Roundtree is aware of the cruelty in its midst. The problems that afflict this community are more natural than supernatural-child abuse, teen bullying, the specter of incest. Up until the end (we’ll come to that), the supernatural element seemed an adjunct to this morality tale of human frailty. Unfortunately, also residing in this haunted New England house is an entity of pure, unadulterated evil who encourages men to act on their basest urges. A witch from the days of Colonial times makes her presence known, but she is also a ghost because, well, she died 300 years ago. Based on the blurb, I was expecting Black Creek Crossing to be ghostlit, but it turned out to be more of a witch novel. ![]()
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