This novel really allows you to feel as though you are seeing behind the scenes of World War II. There are fantastic images, reports, and artwork that make it feel all too real, and leave you wondering if, perhaps, any of this is factual.
Right from the start, you’re only given a taste of what the story has waiting for you. You’re told the mission, and some small details about how it will be done, there is a death right away, but then you’re sent off to different stories and kept waiting to learn more!
Sent back to learn how it started, which left me clawing at the pages, desperate to find out the answers to the mystery I’d been given.
Are the spaceships real? Will they actually kill God? Why do the Nazi’s want to kill God? It’s enthralling! I found myself pouring over the pages as I read about the Psychiatrist and his patient who just so loves to gab, gab, gab! It made me recall therapy sessions I’ve had, and made me wonder if the doctor then wasn’t just faking interest, until she finally reveals something useful!
This brings us to the beautiful Maria. She is diagnosed as schizophrenic, which I have a connection to, and I just love how she describes how she can so clearly see something, such as the moon. She sees the moon in the sky, and will ask the person beside her if they, too, see the moon. If they do, then she knows that, in fact, is the moon. But if they don’t see it, then she has to accept that what she sees isn’t what she thinks. It’s a heart-wrenching thought! It really made me feel for the character, to have to think that since 15 she has been having these ‘delusions’ and no one listened.
This story, I feel, does a great job at explaining how a ‘troubled’ mind can lead to huge, unthinkable things if only through the power of suggestion. A troubled mind hears a theory and it stops being a theory and becomes a reality.
It also shows well how love, or at least attraction, can cloud judgment, but I won’t get too detailed into that, as it’s a bit of a spoiler. I just love it, the Romeo and Juliet aspect of it . . . I love you, therefor I am the only one for you, and I’ll watch the world burn if that’s what it takes to be with you. Reality alters, truth no longer matters, just the idea of love remains.
There was obviously an intense amount of research done for this story. Psychiatric research, history, methodology, cults, just a massive amount of research and it’s magnificently well done! There are some spelling and grammar issues here and there, but I must admit I can’t even truly remember them as the story just locked me in.
Slowly, we follow the life of a young soldier turned Psychiatrist and find his involvement in the whole plot to kill God, and we finally find out why he’d ever agree! I would love to tell you, but you really must read the book! It is fantastic, and really plays out like a mystery! Once you get it in your hands you’re going to have a very tough time putting it down. To go into further detail would lead to too many stories, but I just must insist you give this novel a try! Anyone who has studied World War II at all will recognize names and dates, it makes the story feel so very real.
Conspiracy, romance, mystery, horror, cult and occult activity, historic drama, this story has it all and is a fantastic read for anyone into science fiction and alternative history, for certain.