Minds of Men

The Psyche of War, Volume 1

De: Kacey Ezell

Narrado por: Jennifer Jill Araya

Evelyn Adamsen grew up knowing she had to hide her psychic abilities, lest she be labeled a witch. However, when the US Army Air Corps came calling in 1943, looking for psychic women to help their beleaguered bomber force, Evelyn answered, hoping to use her powers to integrate the bomber crews and save American lives.

She was extremely successful at it...until her aircraft got shot down.

Now, Evelyn is on the run in occupied Europe, with a special unit of German Fallschirmjager and an enemy psychic on her heels. Worse, Evelyn learns that using her psychic powers functions as a strobe that highlights her to the enemy.

As the enemy psychic closes in, Evelyn is faced with a dilemma in her struggle to escape - how can she make it back to England when the only talent she has will expose her if she uses it?

©2017 Kacey Ezell (P)2018 Kacey Ezell

Very entertaining listen!

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who's interested in alternate fiction or war/early 20th century history, because it's a highly engaging book that's entertaining from beginning to end. Although the story is fictional, it provides a window into what it may have been like to be an airman or airwoman during World War II, with the added excitement of special psychic abilities. This book recreates fictional scenarios of WWII in a realistic way without trivializing them, which I think is a difficult thing. The narration was extremely well done; I had a distinct sense of each character without the delivery of each being cartoonish or over-the-top.

Although I was asked to listen to this book in exchange for an Audible code, I would honestly recommend this book to anyone. It was entertaining, well written, well delivered, and it read as a realistic perspective of what it would have been like to be an airman during WWII.

This was a wonderful story.

Do you like alternate histories? Do you enjoy realistic, emotional and believable characters. Are you ready to feel your way into the main characters life?

If you said yes to any of these, buy this audiobook.

Great new take on psychics in war

I was looking forward to this book since I was a fan of the authors shorter works. Ezell brings a new take on WWII with psychics, all women, who are recruited on US Bomber crews flying out of England.

The characters are rich and well developed, the main figure Evie is smart, tough, but realistically unsure of herself in new situations and is very realistic. The bonds the crew and psychics form are wonderful to experience. There is plenty of action, enough so that I got nervous for the crews and characters, afraid of what might happen to them. The suspense was just right, bringing you on edge but then easing off after a suitably dramatic moment.

The narration was excellent, Jennifer Jill Araya has a fantastic French and German accent. Not over done, very realistic. Her French especially sounds like a native speaker. I highly recommend this book for anyone with an interest in alternative history or urban fantasy. It's well grounded in our world, with the inclusion of very real psychics with powers you can believe.

I did receive this book for free in exchange for posting an honest review, but it was one I would have bought soon enough anyway, and been happy to have spent the money.

A very different take on war

I have previously read the book. Enjoyed the story, both read and listened to. The narrator did an excellent job and her voice is well suited to this story. Her performance pulled me in and let me immerse myself.
The author pulled no punches on the pains. fear, perales, and triumphs of war, from both sides.

A tightly paced action packed story...

This is an incredible alternate-history, thriller... The book takes place during WWII and it captures this historical moment in a perfect time bubble, except with one important addition... the women who've joined the Psyche Corp branch of the military. Upon arriving on base, these WACs are each assigned to join up with the crews of the B-17 (flying fortress') that make bombing runs on military industrial targets across Germany... The WACs find themselves not only trying to keep the crew on track, but also by connecting with their sister ships it makes their raids that much more successful, by keeping the bombing formation tighter, and better coordinated!
This is the first time I've dived into a book by Kacey Ezell, and while reading, I realized almost immediately that it was gonna be one of my top favorite reads of the year (yeah, it's still early in the year, but I've knocked down over 32 books sofar). I'll  certainly be looking forward to more books by her!
Kacey has written a tightly paced, action packed story where women kick-butt, and fight for every one of their teammates in order to survive this brutal war!
Jennifer Jill Araya's narration puts us right in the thick of the fight! She's now in the lead as one of my top favorite female voice actors. Yes, I have 2 lists... so sue me... LOL.  
If you liked the book Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal, I believe you'll really like this one too! If you love WWII (especially books such as A Higher Call, about Captains Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler) or if you just love alt history, this will be a book that needs to be in your library!