- Mass Market Paperback: 244 pages
- Publisher: Tor Books; First Thus edition (31 Dec 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0812500067
- ISBN-13: 978-0812500066
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,853,760 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This little-known classic by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley is a wonderful treat for readers feeling the loss of this marvelous author. Part of Bradley's beloved "Light" series, Witch Hill is a sensuous story of witchcraft, demonic possession, and true love.
Sara Latimer's last relative has died. Heartbroken and feeling totally alone, Sara moves to the family home she had just inherited, Witch Hill, only to find that she is shunned by most of her neighbors.
Finally Matthew Hay, one of her only allies, explains that Sara's aunt was a powerful, evil witch and that the townspeople fear that Sara is following in her footsteps. Matthew and his ladylove, Tabitha, are also witches, and they too believe that Sara has her aunt's powers-and that she is ready to be possessed by her aunt's waiting spirit.
Sara crumbles under the steady onslaught of Matthew and Tabitha's evil. For a time, her love for Brian Standish keeps her sane, but at last Sara is lost in a maelstrom of dark power and sex magick.
As a Champion of Light, Colin MacLaren cannot allow Sara to be destroyed by Matthew Hay. Even at the risk of his own soul, he will save Sara.
Sara Latimer's last relative has died. Heartbroken and feeling totally alone, Sara moves to the family home she had just inherited, Witch Hill, only to find that she is shunned by most of her neighbors.
Finally Matthew Hay, one of her only allies, explains that Sara's aunt was a powerful, evil witch and that the townspeople fear that Sara is following in her footsteps. Matthew and his ladylove, Tabitha, are also witches, and they too believe that Sara has her aunt's powers-and that she is ready to be possessed by her aunt's waiting spirit.
Sara crumbles under the steady onslaught of Matthew and Tabitha's evil. For a time, her love for Brian Standish keeps her sane, but at last Sara is lost in a maelstrom of dark power and sex magick.
As a Champion of Light, Colin MacLaren cannot allow Sara to be destroyed by Matthew Hay. Even at the risk of his own soul, he will save Sara.
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I would read this book again although I would say that it's really just a short story. The pace is very fast and is never boring. I read it on the train mostly and the pages turn easily. A bit too sexy for my liking but then everyone is different. I did expect something a little different from the actual story and would have liked it a bit more wicca. After all things said, and I would never give any of the story away, if it's just a break from the norm and an uncomplicated story then I would recommend this book. I've given it a 3-star but then I like more of a story and the book to be at least 2 inches thick.
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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful
This depicts an artist's struggle w/her destiny as a witch.
22 Nov 1995
Format:Hardcover
This tale is a great introduction to the authors distinct style, characterization, and intricate plots; which are all very well developed and fine tuned in this novel. The story is told by a female artist who suddenly realizes she carries the seed of witchcraft, which has been passed on for hundreds of years, before her generation. The book gives gruesome and explicit details of her struggle with how she feels about these spiritual connections and the ensuing events. As usual Marion Zimmer Bradley paints a lifelike experience for the reader which could be compared to Mists of Avalon on some levels. Bradley's empowering style and spiritually enlightening ways with words keeps readers' interest and coming back for more. This is a great novel to get your palate wet and acquire the taste for Marion Zimmer Bradley. Truly a talented author in our time; She has a lucid and articulate knowledge of her subject(s) including Wicca (or Goddess orientation) with strong historical accuracy, spiced with just a touch of erotica
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
decent summer read, not MZBs best
19 Aug 2005
Format:Paperback
Witch Hill was a decent summer read. I picked it up Monday night and had it finished by Thursday afternoon. The story wasn't bad, it kept my interest. There are just a few things about this book that irked me though. One, if you read any of MZBs books about Avalon, it is very evident that she knows a great deal about the old religion and has great respect for it. In this book, however, she gives the old religion involved a very negative slant..the stereotypical view that pagan religions are satanic religions. The second problem with this book is the number of typos in it. To me, that says that this book wasn't taken seriously enough to even proof read it properly. The third problem with this book is the use of the character Colin. He and Claire also are characters in the book the "Inheritor", but there are many inconsistencies in the characters from one story to the other. Colin and Claire's characters add nothing at all to this story line except confusion. There is a scene where Colin is telling Sara stories about the people in the town, one of which involves a situation with Brian. But a few pages before when Sara and Brian run into Colin at the store, Brian asks who he is and Sara introduced them. Supposedly Colin is just there to give a lecture at the local university, but he speaks of the people in the town as if he knew them all personally and for a long time. Sara only questions this ever so briefly, and it never comes up again. Colin and Claire also end up at The Great Rite. In the "Inheritor",they follow the path of good. In this book, apparently they follow the path of bad. We really just don't know. MZB never really explains why they are there. Colin is just introduced by Matthew to Sara as "an adept from the West Coast".
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Wow, I'm stunned at how awful this was.
30 Oct 2000
Format:Paperback
I've liked other mooks by MZB in the past. Even when I disliked her stories or characterization I thought she could write well. I picked up this book, figuring I wasn't really going to go wrong with a good witch story.
I don't know quite what's going on with this book, but rather than reading like a book by MZB, it reads like a book by a high school sophomore trying to write like MZB. A not very imaginative high school sophomore, who thinks an overuse of cliches will make her story dramatic.
It also reads like it might have been a sketch for a novel (was this book published posthumously? That would explain a lot. I can't imagine any author *wanting* this to get out as a representative of their work.) It has weird lapses and jumps, and things happen with no setup whatsoever.
Good horror needs an element of realism, but the way the characters in this story behave is so laughably divergent from actual human nature that the supernatural elements are almost mundane in comparison.
The main character is your standard odd, pretty, redheaded artist type, so we all know SHE'S in for some supernatural highjinks. Upon inheriting an moving into her aunt's house in New England she begins getting compulsions to sleep with one guy after another, and a woman as well. Okay. Whatever. Somehow this is an indication of the fact that she's really a reincarnation of her witch aunt, which no one in town doubts. She looks like the aunt, so she must *be* her. Y'all know how simple dumb country folks is.
This book is insulting to everyone it attempts to portray, from magical pratitioners to young country doctors to anyone who ever lived in New England. The fact that the plot is also senseless and the resolution completely glossed over makes it one of the worst books in this genre I've ever read.
Go pick up Web of Darkness or the Mists of Avalon if you really like this author, but give "Witch Hill" a miss.
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