Review: Witchfinders
User Review - Ben - GoodreadsIf you are looking for a narrative of the witch trials - this book is for you. Gaskill has packed the book with case after case but although engaging, this does get repetitive. A good read but sadly ... Read full review
Review: Witchfinders
User Review - GoodreadsInteresting, but very detailed. Gaskill gives a thorough account of the many cases of people convicted and executed, after being brought to confess by professional (and well paid) witchfinders, in the socially instable world of 1640s England.
Review: Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy
User Review - Mel - GoodreadsI started reading this book over a year ago. I got half way through and gave up. I think it just wasn't what I was wanting to be reading at the time. The first half of the book read mostly like a ... Read full review
Review: Witchfinders
User Review - Becky Vowles - GoodreadsPlease ignore the reviews that say this is a boring book, it is not. In fact it is the banal details which make the witch hunting craze of the 1640s so chilling. In a world torn apart by a war that ... Read full review
Review: Witchfinders
User Review - Brianne - GoodreadsI greatly enjoyed this book. It is interesting to see how people can profit from the pain and uncertainty of others. I would have liked to read more about how Sterene and Hopkins interrogated ... Read full review
Review: Witchfinders
User Review - Charlotte - GoodreadsInformative, but quite dull. Read full review
Review: Witchfinders
User Review - Caroline - GoodreadsIt baffles me how anyone can take a topic as dramatic and interesting as Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, and the witch-hunts of the 17th century and make it boring, but Gaskill has managed ... Read full review
Review: Witchfinders
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Review: Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy
User Review - Leslie - GoodreadsI got this book thinking it might shed some light on an especially dark and fascinating corner in the evolution of religious thought and subsequent political movements. It did not. It was mostly a ... Read full review
Review: Witchfinders
User Review - Lord Beardsley - GoodreadsInteresting glimpse into the insane filthiness of 1600s witch-hunting crisis of the United Kingdom during its Civil War. These people all seemed bat-shit insane, paranoid, and with highly debatable ... Read full review
