Yes, you read that right. Time travel. It's not the first time it's come up in Supernatural. Dean's made a few trips back in time to when his parents were just starting out. But this trip is more than a few years — Don sends them back to 1954 on a quest to find the last few pages of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Scrolls may offer a battle plan to defeat the Devil. All they had to do was get them and return back to 2010.
Sounds simple, doesn't it? Of course it's not. Along the way they run into some friends — Walter and Julie — who alternate between wanting to kill them or help them. They also run into the demon who wanted to be the wife of Lucifer instead of Lilith — Eisheth. She's a real treat with a few secrets of her own concerning Don, the angel who put everything into motion.
Really this was a fun tale in true Supernatural fashion. Not only do you get the usual sarcasm, wit, and hunting with the Winchesters, but you learn a bit about the Dead Sea Scrolls and take a deeper dive into the world of angels and demons.
Included in the fiction were a few comments on life today from the boys' perspective in 1954. When Sam is forced to visit a library instead of surfing the net for his research, he notes: "Rows of shelves lined every inch of the room; thousands upon thousands of books, and not an Internet connection in sight. Sam didn't mind doing the research, but Google had become his crutch, and he felt handicapped without it." I wonder how many of us would want to give up some of today's nicer benefits in favor of heading to a technologically-simpler time in America?
Maybe I've been wrong to skip TV-and-movie tie-in fiction this long, because Supernatural: War of the Sons was a fun read. If you want to learn a bit more about the world of Supernatural and take a tour of the 1950s with the Winchesters, I highly recommend you give it a whirl!
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