Review: A dark story that immerses the reader in the evils of war and is steeped with treachery and deceit!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 13, 2014
The War Of The Moonstone by Jack Connor is an epic fantasy which reminds us that sometimes you must fight fire with fire!The War Of The Moonstone is a story about a world that is split into two domains; one is good and the other is evil.  Man and demon. The time has come for the prophecy to be fulfilled; the time when the evil lord will rule the world. It will be a battle that evil cannot win by might alone. Evil is not yet strong enough, so it resorts to the worst of tactics. That being terror, treachery and deceit. It has taken the evil lord generations to scheme such a plan and more generations for him to set his traps.The story opens with the dark lord setting his spy into the midst of men, right into the heart of the barony. But, this spy is gathering more than just intelligence. He is unleashing a much thicker plot to turn men against men. As the story unfolds, our heroes, honorable and noble as they may be, find themselves so ensnared in the trap that even honest and good intentions serve nothing but to pull them deeper into the quicksand. That's the feeling that Jack Connor has tapped into and that feeling of quicksand permeates the story from cover to cover.In an effort not to give away the plot of the story, I will only say that the quicksand pulls our heroes deeper and deeper until they realize that they, like the evil lord, cannot win this battle by might alone. They will have to find another way and in the depths of their struggle, one idea emerges. The idea is risky, it will certainly cost them an unbearable loss, and it requires them to trust in the most untrustworthy person, but it is the only choice they are left with. In the end, they realize that one evil turn deserves another. They will have to fight fire with fire.One thing I can say for certain is that The War Of The Moonstone is dark, dark, dark, from start to finish and it does not have a typical 'happily ever after' ending.I recommend with 5 stars.