Warm Words & Otherwise: A Blizzard Of Book Reviews - Plot & Excerpts
In this instance, Frost combines Bluebeard and Fitcher's Birds to produce a fantasy that's very much more entrancing than either.It's 1843, and charismatic preacher Elias Fitcher claims the world is about to end; all except those who come to dwell in his utopian community in the Finger Lakes region of New York State will be forever damned by a vengeful Lord. Among the families suckered by this nonsense are the Charters: mom, dad and their three lovely daughters, Vernelia, Amy and Kate. Fitcher's eye first falls on the eldest sister, and she becomes his bride ... but soon disappears. Then it's the turn of Amy, and finally, of course, Kate is "favored." Kate, who's spunky and intelligent, succeeds in outwitting and defeating the vile sexual predator Fitcher where the over-sensible Vernelia and the flighty Amy have failed.This is exactly as you'd expect from a fairy tale. What you wouldn't have expected, though, is that Frost succeeds in turning his fable into a very full fantasy, in two principal respects.
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