The Daylight Gate

I'm fascinated by witch trials, and I'm always looking for good fiction about them.  I love Winterson's humor and gorgeous writing, so this seemed like a perfect match.  I expect books about witch trials to be more interesting than they tend to be, but I forget that the antagonists in those stories are puritans and puritans are BORING!

That being said, this book gets and overall "pretty good" from me.  It's a very short book.  I read it in a couple of hours (on Kindle, so I couldn't really tell if the pages were sparsely worded but I'm guessing so).  More of a novella, really.

I find Winterson one of the most quotable authors I've ever read, but I didn't get any of that from this book.  The writing was simple, which was fine, but I have a certain expectation when reading her, and that wasn't met.  There was humor in this book, though very subtle.  I enjoyed that aspect very much.

There were a couple of fun surprises, so while this isn't a masterpiece, it's definitely worth reading.  

3.5/5 stars