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The widow of pale harbor by hester fox5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Then there are some macabre displays put up around town, full of voodoo dolls, animal carcasses, etc. An angsty widower moves from Massachusetts to Maine in order to start a Transcendentalist church, but bumps up against a population of superstitious, close-minded people too busy gossiping about a rich local widow who is, clearly, a witch. The premise of the book is promising, I suppose. I also think that if an actual romance novelist had written The Widow of Pale Harbor, things would have gone much smoother. While perusing critical reviews for this book on Goodreads, I saw numerous complaints that though the book is marketed as a Gothic historical in the style of Poe, it’s really more of a “trashy romance.” While I disagree with the term “trashy romance” categorically, I do agree that Hester Fox cannot write a love story to save her life. Put another way, I did not like this book. Unfortunately, my list of words is more like: insipid, inane, overwritten, clumsy, overwrought, and silly. ![]() ![]() These are all words that, if you asked Hester Fox probably, are meant to describe The Widow of Pale Harbor. ![]()
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