![]() ![]() I did wish the present day story had been fleshed out a bit more, I expected that there would be more of a threat to Sean and those that went to the Church but at the end it was a little anticlimactic in that sense. There's a lot of warfare discussion and this can drag a little but the horror elements make up for it and it ends up an entertaining mix of history and occultism. Jacks diary gives the answers as to the horrors that they endured and also speaks of a supernatural evil that the Nazis wished to unleash on the world and that higher powers would seek to exploit today.Ī solid horror that is mostly told through the diary pages of Jack, you become completely invested in the survival of Jack and the 'Lucky Seven'. He wants the truth to be known about how and why his men were massacred in the Hurtgen forest but there are those who wish to keep what the Nazis did a secret. Jack Chambers sends his grandson to Germany on a mission to retrieve the bodies of his deceased platoon. ![]() ![]() *Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.* it's not the enemies out in the fields and trenches that drive good soldiers over the edge. I enjoyed the writing, but was expecting more of a supernatural aspect to the entire book-not just near the end. I found most of the story to be about the war itself, and the effect that it had on the people fighting in it. "Beneath the graveyard burrows a tunnel built like a mine shaft. While the story was interesting, and I couldn't wait to find out exactly what was happening, it felt like too long of a build-up before anything "concrete" was mentioned about the real threat in the forest. The majority of the story takes place in the form of a novel-long "flashback" of what happened to Jack during his last mission in WWII. Army base in Germany, this is not a "light" request to make. SHADOWS IN THE MIST, by Brian Moreland begins with an elderly man, Jack Chambers, who sends his grandson, Sean, on a mission to bring something to a General Briggs. ![]()
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