Angela Korra'ti reviewed Wildfire at midnight by Mary Stewart
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3 stars
This one was notable for me being set on the isle of Skye in Scotland, which was a refreshing switch from France, even if the obligatory Colorful Locales With Spelled-Out Scottish Accents were a bit tough to read (the trick of it, I found, seemed to be a bit zen--if I didn't try too hard to sound out the spellings, the accent clicked better in my brain). We get more characters smoking a lot in this story, and to add to that, the slightly out of the ordinary (for Stewart) tack of the heroine starting the story divorced. Three guesses who shows up on Skye shortly after she does. ;)
All jokes about Mystery Science Theater 3000 and "OH NO JOEL, ROCK CLIMBING!" aside, there are some neat tense passages herein where most of the cast go out in search of missing climbers. To a modern reader it'd probably be β¦
This one was notable for me being set on the isle of Skye in Scotland, which was a refreshing switch from France, even if the obligatory Colorful Locales With Spelled-Out Scottish Accents were a bit tough to read (the trick of it, I found, seemed to be a bit zen--if I didn't try too hard to sound out the spellings, the accent clicked better in my brain). We get more characters smoking a lot in this story, and to add to that, the slightly out of the ordinary (for Stewart) tack of the heroine starting the story divorced. Three guesses who shows up on Skye shortly after she does. ;)
All jokes about Mystery Science Theater 3000 and "OH NO JOEL, ROCK CLIMBING!" aside, there are some neat tense passages herein where most of the cast go out in search of missing climbers. To a modern reader it'd probably be annoying that the women in the cast wind up playing support to the Big Strong Men Doing the Bulk of the Work, but I'll cut that some slack on the grounds that the heroine does still get to do pivotal stuff involved with the search. I pegged the killer beforehand, but not too terribly long, so points for not making that terribly obvious too soon into the story. Three stars.