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I am currently travelling around Montana, USA from the UK and ventured into my first Barnes and Noble and thought it appropriate to pick up a Western to read whilst I‘m here. This author is clearly prolific in westerns as there was an entire wall of his books, and the main character in this book, Smoke Jensen, appeared in many, many titles. (Cont. in comments 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻)
i.z.booknook (1) In this book, Smoke is on the hunt of a gigantic, killer bear which is terrorising the populace of his little western town. I felt a bear book was appropriate after my sighting of a bear in Glacier National Park. Luckily for me this one was busy munching on some berries and did not notice us people gawking! The story is simple and is also fairly slow moving, with events often told twice and over-explained. 4mo
i.z.booknook (2) It also reads a little like fan-fiction, in that Smoke is the perfect masculine man, with a beautiful wife who greets him with a kiss at the end of the day, and everyone in town respects him and knows of him, and he is the best at everything. However, I think I am perhaps not the target audience and have still enjoyed my first read of a western. 4mo
Lcsmcat I hope you‘re enjoying your trip. I recommend some actual western writers, not the western genre but people who lived and loved the western US. My favorite Montana author is Ivan Doig. His English Creek trilogy is a good place to start. Wallace Stegner for Utah. And for Yellowstone a park ranger / author is Lee Whittlesey. I‘ll tag some of these. 4mo
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i.z.booknook @Lcsmcat Thanks for the recs! 4mo
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