Green Darkness

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Summary: An Amazing Book! I couldn't it put down
Review: 'Green Darkness' was recommended to me by a friend and I loved it. This is the first Anya Seton book I have read, and I enjoyed it so much that I hope to read all of her books.

'Green Darkness' portrays the life of a young girl in the mid 1500s. Ms. Seton captures the time so well that, while reading it, the reader will feel that he or she is actually there at Cowdray Castle, agonizing over whether to become Protestant, or to remain Catholic.

'Green Darkness' starts out in 1968, in London, England, with an American girl, Celia, and her fiancé, Richard, driving through the countryside, stopping occasionally to look at old castle ruins. While in a particular castle, Celia gets a strange feeling that she had been there before, though she had never even been to England, much less to a castle ruin. Richard tells her to disregard the feeling (typical!) and go on with life. Celia tries, until Seton magically transports her back to the sixteenth century living the life of a beautiful, young, medieval, orphan girl living with her Duchess aunt.

If you love historical fiction you will most definitely enjoy reading this book. By Anya Seton's mystical story telling, you will be transported along with Celia, and find yourself as out of your time as is she.

I enthusiastically recommend 'Green Darkness' to you, as a friend, especially if you need to get away from it all!

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Summary: The most enthralling and sensual romance I've ever read.
Review: My folks have an enourmous amount of books and when I was bored I'd pluck one off the shelf at random and read it. They had a paperback version of Green Darkness. I must have been about 14 when I read it and it knocked my socks off. Ms. Seton artfully weaves the two doomed lovers Celia the beautiful, bastard child of bastard noblemen and Stephen a Benedictine monk during the fanatical protestent reign of the "boy King" Edward into a luridly beautiful web of tormented passion so intense that it must be reconciled.

This is not your run of the mill time travel romance. It deals more with past life regression and karmic debt. Green Darkness is a beautifully written, historically accurate altogether wonderful book.

If the powers that be are reading this. PLEASE reprint it someday soon. I have a copy that I've read more than a dozen times. The only things that holds it together now is Scotch tape and a prayer.

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Summary: Read this!!!
Review: This book is very well written; the story runs very smoothly. The reader is captivated and the story is suspenseful. Well worth reading.