Setting for Ravens Gate

The setting in Ravens gate played a very important part in the story. The story took place in the country during April and May. The author did a very thorough job describing the setting of the city of lesser Malling. He did this by giving a vivid picture to the reader about the image of the country side, it seemed very peaceful and nice as if to lure the reader into the trap that would make this story intense. I would not however enjoy being in the setting of the latter part of the story. Once Matt realizes what he has gotten into the story turns dark and frightening. The reader can feel like he is in the story. Roodmas is very important because that is when the witches were at their full power and were planning on taking control of everything. If the author had made the setting different it would have ruined the book. It needed to be exactly how it was for everything in the book to fall into place.