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1643: A small group of Parliamentarian soldiers are ambushed in an isolated part of Northern England. Their only hope for survival is to flee into the nearby Moresby Wood... unwise though that may seem. For Moresby Wood is known to be an unnatural place, the realm of witchcraft and shadows, where the devil is said to go walking by moonlight... Seventeen men enter the wood. Only two are ever seen again, and the stories they tell of what happened make no sense. Stories of shifting landscapes, of trees that appear and disappear at will... and of something else. Something dark. Something hungry. Today: five women are headed into Moresby Wood to discover, once and for all, what happened to that unfortunate group of soldiers. Led by Dr Alice Christopher, an historian who has devoted her entire academic career to uncovering the secrets of Moresby Wood. Armed with metal detectors, GPS units, mobile phones and the most recent map of the area (which is nearly 50 years old), Dr Christopher’s group enters the wood ready for anything. Or so they think...
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A pagan-type Blair Witch with a historical POV twist. Honestly, not too bad, I certainly enjoyed it more than blair witch itself.
A group of researchers go into a cursed forest in pursuit of any knowledge relating to a company of soldiers who went missing in the same woods in the 1600s. The book is split, mostly, into alternating chapters half are in present day with the research group lead by Alice, half follows the old company lead by Captain Davies. I'm not normally one for confusing PoVs, but I think this book really benifited from having these. It is confusing at first, it's hard to work out what character is who, but that does get better as the book goes on and I think the side-by-side stories is critical to how the story is told and it fits in with the world literally perfectly.
I did find one of the characters absolutely insufferable though, which made the ending feel a bit longer than it actually is. No character arc with them, I didn't get any sense of growth from them even after everything that had happened. Their actions don't really make much sense to me either.
The ending also felt a bit.. eh? It does make total sense within the story and the world, but as a reader I came away feeling a little dissapointed with how many questions I had left. I think I'd quite like a spin-off story perhaps, a sequel might not work with how this was tied up, but I think a spinoff would be able to answer a bit more, dive more into the history and folklore of the forest and expand on that a lot more than a couple eyewitness accounts could.
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