You know, I think I may have read too many historical novels because I'm starting to get a little underwhelmed by them. This is not a bad book, and the quality of writing is good, but somehow it failed to hit the spot and I ended up feeling that it was a little over-stuffed. The book is almost four hundred pages in length, but I recon you could safely chip away about a quarter of it and still have a workable story. It's another one of those 'Quest' type novels where everyone is living a happy life, then some great injustice is done that puts one of the key characters in peril, then everyone else has to put themselves in danger on a misguided rescue mission. The story is set in Norway in the mid sixteen hundreds when everyone believed in witches and witchcraft, and every time something bad happened, an innocent woman had to be declared a witch and burned at the stake. In this case, a regional governor has declared that he will rid Vardo of all the witches he claims to ...