The Black Moon (The Poldark Saga #5) by Winston Graham
Genre: Historical Fiction
Read: 17th November 2017
Purchase: Amazon
★★★★★ 5 stars
Brilliant as always. I am so totally in love with the Poldarks that as soon as I finish one I'm straight onto the next.
This book, written 20 years after the last one "Warleggan", did not miss a beat and merely picked up where "Warleggan" left off. We are introduced to some new characters by way of Elizabeth's cousin Morwenna and Demelza's brothers Sam and Drake - the latter finding love on the Trenwith estate in the form of young Geoffrey Charles' governess Morwenna. We also see more of Geoffrey Charles who is now 11 and coming into a personality all if his own. Another new face is one that popped up previously for a moment so brief he wasn't worth remembering. He is now for the sordid brute that he is. The ghastly Reverend Osborne Whitworth, to whom George insists Morwenna must marry. He is hateful. He is vile. He should have something equally horrid happen to him tenfold for the brutish life he has bestowed on one so lovely as Morwenna.
But the saddest of all is the final act of cruelty George bestows upon dear Aunt Agatha, who has always seen right through him. But in the wake of his cruelty Agatha has the last laugh on him...leaving him reeling.
There is good however...the birth of another daughter for the Poldarks as well as a son for Elizabeth and George. And the return of a much loved and well missed character....
This book, written 20 years after the last one "Warleggan", did not miss a beat and merely picked up where "Warleggan" left off. We are introduced to some new characters by way of Elizabeth's cousin Morwenna and Demelza's brothers Sam and Drake - the latter finding love on the Trenwith estate in the form of young Geoffrey Charles' governess Morwenna. We also see more of Geoffrey Charles who is now 11 and coming into a personality all if his own. Another new face is one that popped up previously for a moment so brief he wasn't worth remembering. He is now for the sordid brute that he is. The ghastly Reverend Osborne Whitworth, to whom George insists Morwenna must marry. He is hateful. He is vile. He should have something equally horrid happen to him tenfold for the brutish life he has bestowed on one so lovely as Morwenna.
But the saddest of all is the final act of cruelty George bestows upon dear Aunt Agatha, who has always seen right through him. But in the wake of his cruelty Agatha has the last laugh on him...leaving him reeling.
There is good however...the birth of another daughter for the Poldarks as well as a son for Elizabeth and George. And the return of a much loved and well missed character....
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