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Lash #3
War
Weresnake Lash journeys to Europe on the eve of war, desperately searching for not only his nephew, but also his former lover Nancy. Leveraged into service to Germany by the malicious German werecougar Theodor von Kessel, Lash befriends fellow soldier and weresnake Dieter, even as he secures safety for Nancy. When Theodor divulges The German Final Solution and the part they are destined to play in it, Dieter and Nancy attempt escape to England while Lash orchestrates distraction. Horrified to learn upon his escape that Nancy and Dieter were captured, Lash returns to Europe in a second rescue, banding with another weresnake called Nails and his motley crew of various weremen to free Dieter and Nancy from the camps where they are imprisoned. Caught by demons in an ambush, Lash is imprisoned in a death camp, but breaks free with Dieter in time to join the American Forces near D-day. Resolute, Dieter and Lash fight onwards with Allied forces to Germany itself, their goals to find Nancy, kill Theodor, and survive the final bloody days of World War II.
255 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 1, 2013
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Tara Fox Hall
89 books449 followersTara Fox Hall’s writing credits include nonfiction, horror, suspense, erotica, and contemporary and historical paranormal romance. She also coauthored the essay “The Allure of the Serial Killer,” published in Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). Her first full-length action-adventure novel, Lash, published in April 2012. Her vampire series begins in June 2012, with the 1st novel Promise Me. Tara divides her free time unequally between writing novels and short stories, chainsawing firewood, caring for stray animals, sewing cat and dog beds for donation to animal shelters, and target practice.
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November 7, 2013
War
By Tara Fox Hall
Reviewed by John Steiner
War. It’s a deceptively simple title that encompasses a mosaic of complexities. Often, I would read reports of war correspondents who were bold and independent enough to not take part in official military press embed programs. These were the better journalists who don’t simply read off press memos like shaved monkeys in suits. Their reporting taught me that the only good guys were the innocent dead and living victims too lacking in power to change their plight.
Tara’s novel, while fantasy, captures all of this. War is the third installment of the Lash series, named for the protagonist who is a were-viper. Drawn into Europe before the U.S.’s entry into World War Two, Lash is tasked with getting out an old fling and, along the way, his nephew who enlisted in the army. Thinking this might take him months, Lash learns that the battle plan is the first casualty of war.
Tied into one event after another, often fighting for the other side, Lash’s war experience changes him in ways entirely too real for combat vets. I was overwhelmed by the myriad of were-this and were-that’s, but that was more than compensated by character personalities that would just as compelling if not one vampire, shape shifter or demon had ever been depicted in the story.
I won’t go into detail as to the chain of events or side plots, because the decisions leading into and out of them are meant for shock value. You’ll understand fully why real world veterans of war often refuse to talk about their experiences, that those who are awarded metals and those who are real heroes often do not coincide.
As with any historical war the “real” world back home won’t feel like the one that Lash and other vets thought they left behind when marching off to fight… WAR.
By Tara Fox Hall
Reviewed by John Steiner
War. It’s a deceptively simple title that encompasses a mosaic of complexities. Often, I would read reports of war correspondents who were bold and independent enough to not take part in official military press embed programs. These were the better journalists who don’t simply read off press memos like shaved monkeys in suits. Their reporting taught me that the only good guys were the innocent dead and living victims too lacking in power to change their plight.
Tara’s novel, while fantasy, captures all of this. War is the third installment of the Lash series, named for the protagonist who is a were-viper. Drawn into Europe before the U.S.’s entry into World War Two, Lash is tasked with getting out an old fling and, along the way, his nephew who enlisted in the army. Thinking this might take him months, Lash learns that the battle plan is the first casualty of war.
Tied into one event after another, often fighting for the other side, Lash’s war experience changes him in ways entirely too real for combat vets. I was overwhelmed by the myriad of were-this and were-that’s, but that was more than compensated by character personalities that would just as compelling if not one vampire, shape shifter or demon had ever been depicted in the story.
I won’t go into detail as to the chain of events or side plots, because the decisions leading into and out of them are meant for shock value. You’ll understand fully why real world veterans of war often refuse to talk about their experiences, that those who are awarded metals and those who are real heroes often do not coincide.
As with any historical war the “real” world back home won’t feel like the one that Lash and other vets thought they left behind when marching off to fight… WAR.
August 25, 2013
Book 3 of the series and Lash is caught up in the Second World War, not from patriotism or moral sympathy. That really isn’t Lash’s style. He goes because his old friend and lover, Nancy, is living in Europe and because he also needs to find his hot-headed nephew, who has terrified his mother by enlisting in the army. What he finds going on in Europe is more horrific than anyone could have imagined.
I found this book hard to read, not because it was badly-written – few people write as well as Tara Fox Hall – but because of the dreadful events it describes and because those are, for the most part, real events.
The research that has gone into this book is awe-inspiring. Having studied Nazi Germany myself, I was familiar with much of the material, but there was sufficient new evidence to horrify me all over again.
A great book but not for the faint-hearted.
I found this book hard to read, not because it was badly-written – few people write as well as Tara Fox Hall – but because of the dreadful events it describes and because those are, for the most part, real events.
The research that has gone into this book is awe-inspiring. Having studied Nazi Germany myself, I was familiar with much of the material, but there was sufficient new evidence to horrify me all over again.
A great book but not for the faint-hearted.
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November 7, 2013This is the most elaborate book I have ever written...and likely the most I ever will write.
This book is dedicated to all soldiers and civilians who fought in or experienced World War II. It was your sacrifice, blood, and tears recollected in living color on The History Channel and The Military Channel that convinced me to write this book, to translate your experiences into words, that those who were not with you might better understand just what war really is.
This book is dedicated to all soldiers and civilians who fought in or experienced World War II. It was your sacrifice, blood, and tears recollected in living color on The History Channel and The Military Channel that convinced me to write this book, to translate your experiences into words, that those who were not with you might better understand just what war really is.
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