Zwei Frauen, zwei Schicksale – und ein Geheimnis unter dem Mondlicht. 🌕
Laura Purcells „Moonstone“ (Festa Verlag) entführt in eine düstere viktorianische Welt voller Atmosphäre und Gefühl.

Rezension von Carsten Kuhr
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Moonstone, Laura Purcell

Up until now, Laura Purcell is a Final Fantasy kind of hit and miss writer for me: even if I didn't like her book I dislike it in an fascinating way. Her work can vaguely be separated into Horror-Mystery, where the flavour is supernatural horror but the backbone are solidly logical (I love these), and Mystery-Horror, where the flavour is mystery but the plot is It's Magic Kthnxbai (I do not like these). Though I'm comfortable that even her less solid work are decidedly interesting, even if I didn't love them.

Then there's Moonstone. I don't know how else to describe it, except it's a bad book. Somehow it managed to be a sapphic werewolves story, and still so terrible that I feel like I've just read an awkward genderbent Bella Jacob fanfiction. CamilleBella met LucyJacob. LucyJacob wasn't interested in CamilleBella. CamilleBella has no boundaries so she kept on slipping nice coins into LucyJacob pokey machine until a kiss falls out. It's like the worst of Nice Guy hetero fantasy forced romance structure but with girls. Night of Azure handled a similar demon-human lesbian romance, and more well thought out nuance was done in one cutscene than this entire 270 pages book.

And the plot is so so nonsensical. It made me think about Catriona Ward's Sundial, after something beautifully well crafted like Needless Street, she immediately released a book that made no comprehensible sense every step of the plot. Moonstone is even worse, if I started off being frustrated on the entire mystery was forced by everyone in the book were pathological liars, it rapidly deteriorated into something even less coherent. The final battle against Bad Wolves were so laughable, let's just say I can't even successfully feed my cat pills as easily as Bella and Jacob magically tricked the hyper-nosmic wolves into eating poison.

It's unfortunate, as I will never top how Laura Purcell 's The Corset made me feel, or her Bone China that forced me to re-exam the intersectionality that I never had to think about. Moonstone is a mess, and not even an interesting mess. I'd say this is likely to finally have broken the Purcell magic for me for good now.

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I love a gothic mystery. If there's an asylum, I'll read or watch until I can't see straight. Throw in some supernatural stuff and I'll be lost in it for days. I've found myself with a Netflix addiction largely because of The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor. I swear, it's not just because of Victoria Pedretti.

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