{"id":6959,"date":"2025-01-08T22:06:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/review-the-mercies-kiran-millwood-hargrave\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T22:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:06:52","slug":"review-the-mercies-kiran-millwood-hargrave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=6959","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Mercies Kiran Millwood Hargrave"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Mercies<\/a> by Kiran Millwood Hargrave<\/a>
\n My rating: 5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n

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After a storm has killed off all the island’s men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village struggle to survive against both natural forces and the men who have been sent to rid the community of alleged witchcraft.<\/b>

Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Bergensdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Northern town of Vard\u00f8 must fend for themselves.<\/span>

Three years later, a sinister figure arrives. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who is both heady with her husband’s authority and terrified by it. In Vard\u00f8, and in Maren, Ursa sees something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God and flooded with a mighty evil.<\/span>

As Maren and Ursa are pushed together and are drawn to one another in ways that surprise them both, the island begins to close in on them with Absalom’s iron rule threatening Vard\u00f8’s very existence.<\/span>

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Inspired by the events of the Vard\u00f8 storm and the 1620 witch trials, <\/span>The Mercies<\/i> is a feminist story of love, evil, and obsession, set in a remote fishing community<\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n
Really glad I gave this book a second try after giving up on it the first time I started it. It turned out to be a wonderful yet horrific story about Witchcraft trials in Scandinavia the 1600s, a story about women, hidden love and the utter hideousness of some men. Loved it and its one of those books which leaves me thinking what the heck can read after this?<\/span><\/p>\n

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