2023/091: The Secrets of Pain — Phil Rickman

2023/091: The Secrets of Pain — Phil Rickman

'...Had what you might call a spiritual experience where I seen the poetic truth of ley lines. Looked at the veins in my wrist and seen the arteries of the countryside. Magic, that was.’
‘I thought it was acid.’
‘Well, aye, it was, but a vision’s a vision, ennit?' [loc. 3489]

Jumping from the first to the eleventh in a series means discovering that a lot has happened in the intervening nine books... Having read and enjoyed The Wine of Angels, first in the Merrily Watkins series, I found The Secrets of Pain in my well-populated Kindle TBR folder, and dived in.

Merrily, formerly the new vicar of Ledwardine on the Welsh Borders, is now a bona fide Deliverance Consultant for the Diocese of Hereford: that is, a professional exorcist.( Read more... )