Battles In The Darkness

Mist In The Willows by Lucy Linne is a contemporary Gothic horror novel that grabbed my attention from the start. It is the first book in The Spirit Fleet Chronicles which promises to be entertaining.

I do not normally venture into the horror genre but this is ‘gentle’ horror which was both exciting and entertaining. There are all the elements of a traditional Gothic horror tale – with darkness, swirling mists, unexplainable happenings. The reader witnesses that life can be a battle between good and evil, as the powers of darkness try to pull an innocent down.

‘Just doing her job’ is a phrase that has haunted former army captain Jade, along with recent past events that she has tried to block out but keep resurfacing in her dreams. PTSD has seen her tossed aside by the army after loyally serving them. She is now sofa-surfing on her Grandad’s houseboat.

The images from her recent past pursue her. The faster she runs, the more her pursuers amass. She wonders if it is all in her imagination until her dog growls at the darkness, and Jade realises that evil is afoot.

Lucy Linne has constructed a tale that pulls the reader into the action from the start. We invest our emotions into the character of Jade who is extremely likable.