Inheritance of Shadows

Audio bliss!Happy New Year to me! I've been on audiobook roll and this one by [a:Callum Hale 7980648 Callum Hale https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] will certainly be on the winning list. This is billed as a prequel to [a:A. L. Lester 21126837 A. L. Lester https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]'s LOST IN TIME series and perhaps it is but it can certainly be read as a satisfying novella all on its own. I'd seen this floating around GR and even picked it up a while ago but hadn't dived in because I'm not a huge paranormal reader. The AB was the push I needed and I'm happy I listened.Matthew Webber has come back from what was then known as The Great War aka WWI. He's hoping to return to some sense of normalcy after existing in the trenches of mud and death. It's not to be. Not right away. Matty comes home to the reality that his older, bookish brother Arthur is wasting away in body and mind. The illness is mysterious and irrevocable. Luckily Rob, a longtime farmhand at the Webber farm, is also back from the war and willing to help shoulder the burden. Of course it helps that Matty and Rob were childhood friends, bosom buddies, and each had yearned for something more even if they hadn't verbalized it even to themselves. The immediacy of war and death have changed all that.More on the blog and later hereA copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.