The Woman in Black: Angel of Death

This is the novelization of ‘‘Angel of Death'', the mediocre sequel to ‘‘The Woman In Black'' , a 2012 beautiful film based on the novella by Susan Hill. An attempt to cash out on the success of the first film, it verifies the rule of the sequels. The book is as good as the movie and that means average at best. There's nothing to write home about, really. Other than its striking front cover, the characters are weak, irritating, the ‘‘scares'' badly-written. It certainly can't hold a candle to the original. Worth reading only for the atmospheric setting, amidst the time of the Blitz, during the Second World War.

I liked this book. It got a lot of negative reviews on Amazon. I never read book reviews before purchasing, I prefer to go in blind, and in this instance I am glad I did. Admittedly it's not up to the standard of the Susan Hill original, the spooky “Woman in Black”, but it is still an enjoyable read in it's own right. Once I started it I couldn't put it down and I had it read in a day. To me, that is the mark of a good book.