Title: White Forest Author: Adam McOmber Publisher: Simon & Schuster Genre: Historical fantasy This is a difficult review to write, because the prose is beautifully written and I’d like to like the story, but for me, White Forest misses the mark conceptually and in its overall mood. Though some will love its dark pagan undercurrents and fuzzy mysticism, I think the story is unnecessarily  confusing. The story needed more thought given to it during the structural editing phase. The story WhiteForest is set on the edge of Hampstead Heath just after the Crimean war. The main character, a young woman called Jane Silverlake, can hear the souls of man-made objects (we’re already on shaky conceptual ground here.) Of course, all the noise is rather annoying which is why she likes the peaceful silence she hears from nature. Her ‘talent’ can be experienced by others when she touches them, and when her friend Nathan Ashe discovers this, he undertakes a series of experiments with Jane to … [Read more...]