Susan Hill's 'Black Sheep' was overall very disappointing. Hill is usually such an expect at writing short stories and comprising so much into so little. Here I felt that she wasn't on top form. The story is centred around the mining community in a village called Mount of Zeal and what happens to he individuals who live there. The pacing was slow, maybe too slow in my opinion and when the tragic event happened near the end I literally pounced on it. I think if the novel had been longer I would've given up, but as it stands I dragged myself through it. I feel that Susan Hill only really works writing at this slow pace with her horror/ghost works.
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