No Man’s Land

Hardcover, 496 pages

Published by Del Rey.

ISBN:
978-0-345-49315-6
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The Great War was supposed to be the war to end all wars—and maybe it would have been, had an even greater, otherworldly foe not risen to extinguish the conflict. Overnight, as guns blazed in France and Flanders, village after village in the quiet British countryside was swallowed by the Forest. And within the Forest lurk the Huldu—an ancient fae race, monstrous in their inhumanity, who have decided that mankind’s ascendency over the world can endure no longer. Enter Duncan Silver. Scarred by the war, fueled by a rage deeper than the trenches in which he once fought, Duncan is determined to show the Huldu that the world is not theirs for the taking. Armed with a deadly iron knife and a cut-down trench gun filled with iron shot, Duncan will stop at nothing to return the children the Huldu have stolen to the arms of their families. No matter …

2 editions

Meh, not for me

Duncan Silver, former soldier, now woodsman, has made it his life’s work to return children stolen by the Huldu, and he’s not afraid to slaughter any Forest inhabitant or changeling that is in his way.

This wasn’t for me. I have never much cared for stories involving fae/faeries/the fair folk, nor do I particularly enjoy reading The Great War stories, and that is basically what this book boils down to. I’ve really enjoyed previous Morgan novels, but the themes were more to my taste. The characters were fine, the writing is fine, I just wasn’t interested in any of it. I also found the combat scenes a little tedious, presumably because they involve more gun than swordplay. The ending felt very rushed, and a bit unsatisfactory to me. I’d forego reading a sequel in favour of rereading “The Steel Remains”.