The Lodge of the Lynx (2) Mass Market Paperback – 1 June 1992

The series of books has been enjoyable to read. I read them all when they first came out but could never find volume in a hardback. I was excited when I found this after all these years.

An enjoyable read.If you enjoy the Dennis Wheatley novels you will enjoy this,and it has a similar feel to it.It is a sequel,obviously,and in my opinion better than the first.The attention to detail is superb and for people of a certain age the descriptions will bring Edinburgh and the borders back to life.I intend to read the whole series

This is a review of the printed book, so all the complaints about the ebook not relevant here.Considering the Deryni books were so good, this series is disappointing. The story and esoteric elements are excellent, but the intrusive americanisms let it down. The thing is, when Americans set themselves to write a British book, as so many of them do, there can be no halfmeasures: either it remains obviously and honestly American, or has to be done accurately. The occasional error just brings the flow to a standstill, ruins the suspension of disbelief.Here there are basic errors of spelling and vocabulary, eg color, practise, precinct for police station, and gassing up the plane....far too many gottens,... There are also mistakes which affect the actual narrative: eg, in this book, after his accident, Adam "picked up his fork awkwardly in his left hand", with complete unawareness that Brits normally do use their left hand for the fork, and in the first book, we have the climactic leap of the car off the ferry, in careful detail, except the driving is all wrong, describing the procedure for an American style automatic, not a gearshift drive which it would have been in reality. And finally, in this book, there is a rather blatant American kind of perspective, firstly in the overdone Scottishness, which stresses the traditional overseas perception of Scotland in the sentimentalising of dress and aristocratic living, tartan all over these pages, to the point of twee, and secondly in the Christianisation of the ceremonies. Occult novels do better if they remain in their own postulated occult arena, a forced Christian overlay is just naive, and disrupts the credibility of the occult scenario that is being constructed.In other respects the work has been microscopically researched, regarding topography, cars, etc, indeed to the point of tedium where some of the overlong road journeys are concerned, and therefore it seems likely that most of these mistakes, and the readily identifiable passages of amateurish writing, are due to the partner. I certainly don't recall this kind of discordancy in the Deryni novels. Collaborations are always a doubtful enterprise; hard to know why Kurtz put her name to this.

Like this series and been looking for the books I hadn't got yet.

This is a terific series, pity these two ladies have not written any more, thanks Amazon and the Seller for prompt delivery