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Malcolm Brooks

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2 Works 223 Members 17 Reviews

Værker af Malcolm Brooks

Painted Horses (2014) 204 eksemplarer
Cloudmaker (2021) 19 eksemplarer

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Fødselsdato
1970
Køn
male
Nationalitet
USA

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In this sprawling saga, protagonist Catherine Lemay, a novice archeologist, travels from New York to Montana to evaluate if there is anything of historical significance in the area targeted for flooding to create a hydroelectric dam. The year is 1956. She has one summer to investigate a vast swath of canyon. She is ill-equipped to handle such a massive task. Her guide appears to be more interested in finding wild horses than helping with her assignment. She enlists the assistance of a young Crow woman. She meets a reclusive horseman and WWII veteran. We learn their backstories via flashbacks.

Brooks does an excellent job of describing the harsh Montana landscape, the wild bands of horses, and the perils of the plains. He sets up the opposing forces – historic preservation versus industrialization, human against nature, a greenhorn woman in a macho environment. The writing is expressive, in passages such as:

“The animal flared like a cobra, lips curling from yellow teeth as crooked as the fingers of a witch. She jumped back with her breath in her throat. The horse shook its head and stamped a hoof. This was no regular horse but a demon horse, garish and primeval with symbols in yellow and red, rings around one eye and bands up its legs and the splayed print of a human hand plastered on a flank. She fought to reject the notion she’d come face-to-face with the maniacal ghost of a war pony.”

It is an ambitious novel, maybe a bit too ambitious. It is slow in developing, where not much happens for long stretches. It involves a typical star-crossed romance. While it has its good points and drawbacks, I feel the was worth my time and I would read another by this author.

3.5
… (mere)
 
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Castlelass | 14 andre anmeldelser | Oct 30, 2022 |
NF NF signed ; third edition
 
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jtmartinstl | 14 andre anmeldelser | Aug 20, 2022 |
Delightful book of a teenage boy and older girl cousin and his family. Sort of a boy genius, he proceeds to build an airplane with minimal expense and help from Dad and cousin who had flying lessons and a master mechanic. Many great plots within the story that makes the reader not want to put the book down or have it end.
½
 
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ZachMontana | 1 anden anmeldelse | Jan 8, 2022 |
I truly enjoyed this book. I do wish however that the author would have included what happened to John H between the time he is at the train station and when he contacts Catherine again. The reader is brought along on the life paths of Catherine and John H to the point where they meet and should continue both lines afterward instead of just the one. I'm left with an "unfinished feeling" at the end and want to know the rest of his story.
 
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Barbwire101 | 14 andre anmeldelser | May 19, 2021 |

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2
Medlemmer
223
Popularitet
#100,550
Vurdering
3.9
Anmeldelser
17
ISBN
21
Sprog
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