The story grows increasingly ominous as the men build a replica of a ghost wall-a wall topped with skulls that a local tribe erected to ward off the invading Romans-before arriving at a terrifying, unforgettable ending. Quickly, though, Silvie’s dad’s darker side comes to the forefront, as he becomes obsessed with following the rules of the experiment he is particularly captivated by people who were found in the bogs of the region with their hands tied or bearing wounds, perfectly preserved from the Iron Age and discovered centuries later. Silvie wears a scratchy tunic and searches for edible berries and roots, becoming close with Molly. The narrator, 17-year-old Silvie, is forced by her domineering father, a history buff, to join a group of three college students-Pete, Dan, and Molly-and their experimental archaeology professor for a stay on a relatively isolated spot of land in the English countryside to gain insight into what it was like to live day-to-day in the Iron Age. Moss ( Cold Earth) delivers a powerful and unsettling novel about an Iron Age reenactment that steadily morphs into something sinister.
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