{"id":6176,"date":"2016-11-12T09:26:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T14:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2024-05-07T16:52:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T20:52:18","slug":"the-lost-child-of-lychford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/6176","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Child of Lychford"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lost Child of Lychford<\/a><\/em> (2016) Paul Cornell<\/a><\/p>\n

\"the-lost-child-of-lychford\"<\/a>It’s December in Lychford, Lizzie’s first Christmas as Reverend of St. Martin\u2019s–the busiest and most stressful time of the year in the church. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe song \u2018I Believe in Father Christmas,\u2019\u201d she continued to Sue and Oliver, her elderly churchwardens, twelve hours later, at their weekly meeting round the vicarage kitchen table, \u201cshould be banned. It should be a crime to play it. What else has he recorded? \u2018Valentine\u2019s Day Is Just to Sell Cards\u2019? \u2018Look Out for Wasps, It\u2019s Summer\u2019? Radio stations only play it because it\u2019s got that nice bit with the jingle bells, but he\u2019s doing that sarcastically. He\u2019s doing sarcastic jingle bells.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At times, Lizzie had wondered if the best way to deal with the added numbers might be some sort of video prologue. \u201cPreviously, in Christianity . . .\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A Christmas eve wedding added in is making things even more difficult, so when she discovers a ghost following her, she turns to her fellow witches, Judith and Autumn, for help.<\/p>\n

I really adore these characters. And I love that one of the main characters is an elderly woman with a strong personality.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, look at you two, like unicorns at your first orgy,\u201d said Judith, for all the world as if that were a thing people said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another favorite thing are the bits of life the appear in asides, even in this novella.<\/p>\n

Autumn leapt back in her chair. A voice had actually come from her computer. A horribly familiar voice. Then the face associated with that voice appeared, looking out of the corner of her screen, incarnated as a cartoon version of himself. \u201cYou seem,\u201d said Finn, \u201cto be having trouble opening an email. Can I help with that?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cNo you bloody can\u2019t. What are you doing inside my computer? Here, can you see my downloads?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m only \u2018inside your computer\u2019 in the sense that I\u2019m an email. Can an email see inside your computer? Hey, what\u2019s in here, anyhow?\u201d <\/p>\n

Autumn was in no way going to answer that. She\u2019d once got very drunk with Lizzie and started talking about her very specific tastes in fan fiction, and thank God the Reverend had claimed in the morning not to remember a thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is also a mystery–the lost boy of the title–and that is also good, but I think my favorite bits are the dialog between the women.<\/p>\n

She felt Judith\u2019s hand land on her arm, like the skeleton grabbing out from one of those old novelty money boxes. \u201cYou\u2019re with me, my apprentice,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to try summat.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day,\u201d said Autumn, \u201cyou remind me more of the Emperor from Star Wars.\u201d <\/p>\n

Judith considered that for a moment. \u201cNice to finally get a bit of respect,\u201d she decided.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I really love these two books, and highly recommend them.<\/p>\n

Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Tor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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