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Hekla's Children
Hekla's Children | James Brogden
4 posts | 4 read | 2 reading | 5 to read
A decade ago, teacher Nathan Brookes saw four of his students walk up a hill and vanish. Only one returned, Olivia, starved, terrified, and with no memory of where she’d been. Questioned by the police but released for lack of evidence, Nathan spent the years trying to forget. When a body is found in the same ancient woodland where they disappeared, it is first believed to be one of the missing children, but is soon identified as a Bronze Age warrior, nothing more than an archaeological curiosity. Yet Nathan starts to have horrific visions of the students, alive but trapped. Then Olivia reappears, desperate that the warrior’s body be returned to the earth. For he is the only thing keeping a terrible evil at bay…
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kammartinez
Hekla's Children | James Brogden
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Summer‘s here in my country, I can feel it - mostly because Sunday was utterly sweltering. Decided to chill out with a #horror novel set in the British moors and a turmeric-galangal cooler, made by mixing cold soda water with a tonic from a local apothecary. I enjoy gingery-citrusy drinks when the weather gets hot, and this and the book really hit the spot.

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shanaqui
Hekla's Children | James Brodgen

A friend gave this a glowing review, so I picked it up a while back and I'm giving it a try now. So far it's very readable but pretty sure I know what's going to happen, at least in broad strokes.

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MissNosferatu
Hekla's Children | James Brodgen

"With a whine of electric motors a winch started to turn, and Rowton Man slowly began to rise from his grave...
[Dr. Doumani] followed Shan out of the shelter to see what all the fuss was about, and swore in the most un-academic manner when she saw what had been done to the van she'd hired. The wheels had been slashed, and huge, scrawling letters had been scratched into the paintwork along one side:
PUT HIM BACK

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BookMaven9
Hekla's Children | James Brodgen
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Mehso-so

Honestly this was just okay for me. I liked it. It wasn't overly excited about it. It felt disjointed and a bit confusing at times. It held my attention well enough, enjoyed the blending of two worlds and such but overall it was just meh.