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Rotherweird series is wonderful, gothic, eccentric, and very British – a village cut off from the rest of […]

In its fantastical logic, Rotherweird is always coherent, but how it speaks to the non-fantastical is often sublime. It understands history and the perils of historical amnesia. While arguing for science, it delicately distils the ethical quandaries of tinkering with Nature, summoning the spectres of agribusiness, GM foods, deforestation and species extinction with allusive, devastating simplicity: "They do many things to living things." Because I basically binged all three books in the Rotherweird Trilogy last month I decided to review all three of them together. I will however try my best to keep it spoiler free so you can read this review even if you haven’t read any of the books yet. As you might be able to tell from the very first sentence of this review, I absolutely loved these books. I couldn’t stop reading and just had to find out what happened next. It’s very rare for me to read a series one book after the other as I usually get a bit of series fatigue and have to slot in another book to cleanse the palate a little bit. Not with Rotherweird! I never got bored and never even thought about putting the series down for another book. Compared to the other books that are up there on my favourites shelve, this one made the cut because of very different reasons than the others. The Rotherweird trilogy stands out because it’s quirky, it has the most amazing cast of characters and it takes place in mysterious and enchanting surroundings. The one aspect that really took the cake from those is the characters. As we read on we get introduced to more inhabitants of Rotherweird and some of the countrysiders who live outside of the town’s walls. They all have their quirks and specific personality traits, but the author makes it really easy to connect with each and every one of them. Books that deal with a lot of characters can sometimes become confusing and although Rotherweird teetered on the edge of confusion sometimes, switching viewpoints from paragraph to paragraph, it didn’t bother me at all. On the contrary, to me this gave the book a sort of cinematic feel: jumping across town to our different characters and getting a glimpse of what they’re doing or thinking at that time. It highlighted the contrast of the different characters and made it all feel very real.

Twelve children, gifted far beyond their years, are banished by their Tudor queen to the town of Rotherweird. Some say they are the golden generation; some say the devil's spawn. But everyone knows they are something to be revered - and feared.

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In this final story we discover the true identities and allegiances of the few characters who remained mysterious in the wake of book two, and the balance of the battle swung wildly from one chapter to the next. Rotherweird's fate was in jeopardy to the last, and not all of my favourites made it to the end as they fought the ancient, sinister forces seeking to take over the land. The town of Rotherweird stands alone – there are no guidebooks, despite the fascinating and diverse architectural styles cramming the narrow streets, theavant gardescience and offbeat customs. Cast adrift from the rest of England by Elizabeth I, Rotherweird’s independence is subject to one disturbing condition: nobody, butnobody, studies the town or its history.

For beneath the enchanting surface lurks a secret so dark that it must never be rediscovered, still less reused. There is something rather familiar within this strange concept. At times Lost Acre almost felt Edenic, especially as the various cages were hoisted into the mixing point by means of a handy tree. A tree of knowledge of good and evil, maybe. I would recommend this book to people who enjoyed the first two books in the series, Rotherweirdand Wyntertide, as it is too intricately-scripted to work as a stand-alone. For beneath the enchanting surface lurks a secret so dark that it mustneverbe rediscovered, still less reused. Then an Outsider arrives, a man of unparallelled wealth and power, enough to buy the whole of Rotherweird – deeply buried secrets and all . . .The town of Rotherweird stands alone – there are no guidebooks, despite the fascinating and diverse architectural styles cramming the narrow streets, the avant garde science and offbeat customs. Cast adrift from the rest of England by Elizabeth I, Rotherweird’s independence is subject to one disturbing condition: nobody, but nobody, studies the town or its history.