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Book Review of The Owl Service

The Owl Service
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Students of Welsh mythology will recognize some of the tales adapted from The Mabinogean . . .
The valley of myth and power . . . where magic made a woman out of flowers, where a doomed warrior won vengeance from beyond the grave, where the power of sorcery built and built and sought release.
Then Alison found plates with owl patterns that vanished; Roger felt screams near an ancient stone, and Gwyn touched the force of a tragic Celtic legend - unknowing, they broke the seals that bound the sorcery. Mythic forces, of love and damnation, lived again. The magic was loose...