Nolan Moore is the host of a YouTube show called The Anomaly Files. He and his team - Ken the producer, Molly the fixer and Pierre the cameraman - travel around looking into unsolved mysteries that might make good TV for their show. Sometimes these mysteries prove to lead them into dangerous situations....
The team have arrived in the small, remote town of Birchlake, Northern California to investigate some ancient stone walls. No one knows who built these walls; what their purpose was supposed to be; or why they were often built in strange patterns. Walls are supposed to enclose something, but these walls seem to have no logical purpose.
Co-incidentally, Nolan's journalist ex-wife Kristy is also in Birchlake. to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. Events in her own past compel her to find out why the girl has vanished, but no one seems keen to talk to her about what may have happened. The townsfolk are not keen on the appearance of Nolan and his team either and they have been treated with suspicion and hostility since they have arrived.
Things are very wrong in the town of Birchlake and it soon becomes clear that the disappearance of the girl is connected to the mysterious walls in some way. Lines become blurred between reality and imagination, and they soon realise that the walls are not intended to keep something in, but instead are to keep something out......
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The Possession is the second book in the Anomaly Files series and it has everything I love in a horror/psychological thriller book, all tied up with a blood-red ribbon.
Book one, The Anomaly introduced us to Nolan and the team and was a total thrill ride - if you have not read it, why not??? Go and buy it now...I'll wait.....Now that's done, let's continue...
The Possession can be read as a stand-alone, but I would really recommend that you read book one first, as there will be major spoilers if you read them in the wrong order. I particularly enjoyed the fact that the events of the first book are only hinted at, so if you have not read it you will be missing out big time.
This is quite a different adventure to the one the team experienced in the first book, but is equally as scary - albeit in a demonic possession and witchy sort of way this time. The small-town claustrophobia adds to the impending sense of doom in this book and the looming presence of the mysterious walls hangs heavily in the air. The team are about to get themselves into trouble again...
It is wonderful to be back with Nolan, Ken, Molly and Pierre in their second adventure and it is just like meeting up with old friends. They are such great characters and their relationship with each other is so natural - Ken is actually my favourite, probably because of his liberal use of "wanker" and "twat" when referring to the pain in his back-side that is Nolan (although they love each other really).
Since this is a spoiler-free review, I am not going to give away any clues about what happens in these pages. It is safe to say that, if you enjoy a good Stephen King horror that scares the bejesus out of you, crossed with the best of a well-researched Michael Crichton thriller, then you will definitely enjoy both of The Anomlay Files books.
I am certainly looking forward to more of the gang's adventures.
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