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Genre veteran Matheson (I Am Legend) frames this bittersweet blend of
fantasy and romantic suspense as the "true" reminiscences of 82-year-old
Alex White, the author of such novels as Midnight Blood Thirst and Midnight
Flesh Hunger under the name Alex Black. In the spring of 1918, the then
18-year-old Alex, a wounded soldier who's been discharged from the American
Army, settles in the isolated English town of Gatford, where he soon finds
himself caught between two supernaturally empowered women: Magda, an
alluring witch, and Ruthana, a charming faerie. Alex, himself powerless,
is willing to make great sacrifices to be with his one true love, whichever
one she might be, but their different natures and disapproving relatives
may doom the relationship. Which of the two women Alex will choose is never
really in doubt; the loser is clearly unsuitable and conveniently malicious
in defeat. The self-pitying Alex may ramble in telling his straightforward
tale, but Matheson remains as ever a competent craftsman.
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