Wyntertide, Andrew Caldecott
Wyntertide, Andrew Caldecott
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Wyntertide
Rotherweird Book II

Author: Andrew Caldecott

Series: Rotherweird #2

Narrator: Kris Dyer

Unabridged: 16 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Arcadia

Published: 05/31/2018

Synopsis

'Intricate and crisp, witty and solemn. Line by line, silent and adroit, it opens a series of trap-doors in the reader's imagination' Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall

Welcome back to Rotherweird.

The town of Rotherweird has been independent from the rest of England for four hundred years, to protect a deadly secret.

Sir Veronal Slickstone is dead, his bid to exploit that secret consigned to dust, leaving Rotherweird to resume its abnormal normality after the travails of the summer . . . but someone is playing a very long game.

Disturbing omens multiply: a funeral delivers a cryptic warning; an ancient portrait speaks; the Herald disappears - and democracy threatens the uneasy covenant between town and countryside.

Geryon Wynter's intricate plot, centuries in the making, is on the move.

Everything points to one objective: the resurrection of Rotherweird's dark Elizabethan past - and to one date: the Winter Solstice.

Wynter is coming . . .

'Baroque, Byzantine and beautiful - not to mention bold. An enthralling puzzle picture of a book' M. R. Carey, bestselling author of The Girl With All The Gifts

(P)2018 Quercus Editions Limited

About Andrew Caldecott

Andrew Caldecott is a KC, an occasional playwright and author of the bestselling Rotherweird trilogy, Rotherweird, Wyntertide and Lost Acre. Simul, the sequel to Momenticon, will publish in 2024.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nigel

Not quite sure about a rating just yet but for me it didn't work as well as the first book. 3 or 3.5 I guess. In full This is the second book in the Rotherweird series and I would strongly advise reading the first one before this - there is much to understand. Rotherweird is an English town that is i......more

Goodreads review by Chris

I would categorise these books as 'just ok'. I don't dislike them but at the same time I can very happily put them down and not get back to them for several days. They're written in a way that's quite hard to binge read and I often wonder which characters I'm supposed to like because the answer is us......more

Goodreads review by Mark

Excellent second book in this lovely quaint fantasy series. Full of quirky good and bad characters, keeping us guessing with the way the plot develops.......more

Quotes

A history-tragic-comedy all rolled into one, Rotherweird is intricate and crisp, witty and solemn: a book not unlike other books, but with special and dangerous properties. Line by line, silent and adroit, it opens a series of trap-doors in the reader's imagination HILARY MANTEL, two-time Man Booker prize winner

Baroque, Byzantine and beautiful - not to mention bold. An enthralling puzzle picture of a book M.R. CAREY, bestselling author of The Girl With All the Gifts

Beautifully handled sequel that cooks up a banquet of dark delights. Once again, we are captivated by the compelling alchemy of plot, place and people: the quirks, the mysteries, the saintliness and the sheer bloody evil Daily Mail

To his lawyerly eye for detail he adds a conjurer's flourish in Wyntertide, the darkly hypnotic sequel to last year's bestseller Rotherweird . . . Rotherweird, Caldecott's fictional English town, has antecedents in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, C S Lewis's Narnia books and, inevitably, a certain bespectacled boy-wizard Sunday Telegraph

Darkly hypnotic The Daily Telegraph

I loved every single thing about it. Wyntertide perfectly continues the journey that began in Rotherweird. Highly recommended The Eloquent Page

Wyntertide builds on all the best parts of its predecessor, introducing the reader to the wider history of Rotherweird, while relishing its small town drama SciFiNow

Even better than the first book . . . Seamlessly structured and reads at a galumphing pace . . . As Wynter's go, this is one cold snap that's very welcome indeed. 10/10 Starburst

I'd strongly recommend you to read it, and to keep reading Blue Book Balloon

Fiendishly plotted and carefully crafted SFCrowsnest

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