Reviews for Dark the Night, Wild the Sea

The average rating for Dark the Night, Wild the Sea based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-03-25 00:00:00 Susan D Gorbutt A story as simple and resonant as myth. For those who thrill to the idea of a love story that transcends time, one set on a windswept Hebridean island, this is an evocative (and unexpectedly morally rigorous) gem. It’s not for me, though; I can’t enjoy a narrative where every female character, no matter how central, functions solely as a helpmeet and/or love object to the protagonist. But it was lovely to journey via prose to the Isle of Colonsay, a place the author clearly loves as much as I do.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-07-28 00:00:00 Timothy Sullivan Brown wrote this when he was 78, after decades of eloquent speaking and publishing in theology, preaching, and serving many as an anti-war activist and a man of integrity and conscience. The fact that he was willing to venture into fiction late in life is itself cause for admiration. Moreover, the book is a lovely story--tender, imaginative, spiritually and theologically provocative, with memorable characters and a strong sense of Scottish heritage and local color that make their own appeal to those of us who share that particular connection with the past. A delight to read.