Booklog 26/2023: Liz Williams: Salt on the Midnight Fire – Fallow Sisters #4

[jacey]

The fourth Fallow sisters book sees Bee, Stella, Serena and Luna heading for Cornwall for the summer after the birth of Luna’s baby and a very strange conclusion to an open-air Shakespeare performance. The extended family includes Sam, Luna’s partner, and Ver, Sam’s gran, plus Serena’s actor boyfriend, Ward, Stella’s friends Ace and Davy, Somerset hunt-master Nick Wratchell-Haynes and Bee’s lovely boyfriend, Dark, an Elizabethan sailor-ghost. As usual the sisters’ mum is up to something, but no one knows what, and the Wild Hunt (land) and the Morlader (sea) are fratching for territory. Expect shapechanging, ghosts, phantom ships, kidnapping and a guest appearance by Elizabeth I, and Francis Drake. I love the Fallow Sisters’ books. This might be the end of the series, but there could be more. I live in hope.