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juushikaTitle: The Demon Lover
Author: Dion Fortune
Published: S.I.L (Trading) Ltd, 1996 (1929)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 205
Total Page Count: 556,435
Text Number: 2087
Read Because: on this yearly best of post, borrowed from Open Library
Review: Chosen for her nascent powers as a medium, a young woman is held captive by a ruthless dark magician--a bond that persists after his apparent death. Fortune wrote fiction inspired by/representational of her own occult beliefs: "The 'Mystical Qabalah' gives the theory, but the novels give the practice." Unfortunately, this means that theory sometimes intrudes on the narrative, esoteric sidebars which are worldbuilding infodumps by any other name. But it also gives this a sincerity that productively complicates an already complicated would-be romance between two opposed, entwined, co-contaminating identities. This has a great atmosphere, especially in the second half, and handles its central relationship with an unsettling, compelling nuance.
Author: Dion Fortune
Published: S.I.L (Trading) Ltd, 1996 (1929)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 205
Total Page Count: 556,435
Text Number: 2087
Read Because: on this yearly best of post, borrowed from Open Library
Review: Chosen for her nascent powers as a medium, a young woman is held captive by a ruthless dark magician--a bond that persists after his apparent death. Fortune wrote fiction inspired by/representational of her own occult beliefs: "The 'Mystical Qabalah' gives the theory, but the novels give the practice." Unfortunately, this means that theory sometimes intrudes on the narrative, esoteric sidebars which are worldbuilding infodumps by any other name. But it also gives this a sincerity that productively complicates an already complicated would-be romance between two opposed, entwined, co-contaminating identities. This has a great atmosphere, especially in the second half, and handles its central relationship with an unsettling, compelling nuance.
