Booklog 2/2021: Liz Williams: Blackthorn Winter - Comet Weather #2

[jacey]

This is Liz Williams' follow up to the excellent Comet Weather, picking up just a short while after the events in the first book. As before the main characters are the four fallow sisters and their partners. Bee is looking after the family home in Somerset with her boyfriend, Dark, who is a ghost. Luna, the youngest sister is temporarily at home, growing a baby but actually intends to go back on the road as soon as the baby is old enough, with her boyfriend, Sam, in a horse-drawn wagon. Serena, a dress designer, and Stella, are both in London at Serena's place, together with Serena's daughter Belle, and her actor boyfriend, Ward. It seems as though the supernatural world hasn't finished with the sisters yet. One by one they get drawn across the divide into other worlds (and dumped back again). Serena's previous live in lover (who happens to be Ward's cousin) has unaccountably gone missing. On top of that her new fashion collection has been ripped to shreds and there's a demon sitting on the mantelpiece. Enter a couple of new character, a green-skinned girl found (by Bee) in the local church yard, andAce, who is fascinating – a down-at-heel wizard. This is a deeply engrossing book written by someone who really knows her magic and folklore. The action moves from Somerset to London and back again, with side trips into occult worlds, including Britain's Roman past. Highly recommended.