SuitabookA Curse Dark as Gold
Elizabeth C. Bunce
- Reading
- Consider reading it in manageable stretches, allowing time to follow the mill’s history and the unfolding mystery.
- Themes
- Charlotte’s agency: Charlotte takes on responsibility for the mill and actively struggles to keep it from ruin. The story gives Charlotte agency rather than leaving her only as a figure acted upon by the curse.
- Theme in context: The story builds a detailed village and mill setting, with descriptive passages and a mystery that unfolds over time. The detailed prose and slow pacing make atmosphere and setting a substantial part of the reading experience.
- Worth knowing
- The story includes creepy supernatural moments, a ghostly figure and the danger of Charlotte’s infant son being nearly lost. It also begins with her father’s death.