Hamilton Arts & Letters

Book cover: Dark Fire by Bernadette Rule. Photograph of a rural setting with a barn, grass, and trees.

BOOK REVIEW
by Timothy Christian


Vancouver Reviews Dundas: Bernadette Rule’s Dark Fire

[Dark Fire by Bernadette Rule.
Ironing Board Press, Ontario, 2021, $24.95.]

Dark Fire burns so brightly I could not put it down and could not stop thinking about it. Bernadette Rule began research for this book twenty-five years ago, and the long gestation led to a sharp, refined, perfectly fashioned and compelling account of a tragedy of primordial viciousness. This is storytelling at its best. (Read the rest of the review at Hamilton Arts and Letters)