Candace G. (Ogre) reviewed As the Wolf Loves Winter (Hemlock County, Bk 3) on + 1568 more book reviews
I read and liked DOWN TO A SUNLESS SEA earlier, and I think Poyer has surpassed that with AS THE WOLF... It will keep you on the edge of your seat. Weaving together threads of natural history, financial and corporate skulldugery and a child's plea for her sick little brother to get better, the plot keeps twisting and turning unexpectedly.
From back cover: It is snowing in the wintry mountains of northwestern Pennsylvania. Once the land of wilderness scouts, later of the boomtowns of the first American oil barons, it is now a spare country of proud men and women hanging on to their lives, dignity, and what's left of prosperity in the declining years of the twentieth century. One tough old man, W.T. Halvorsen, is not going to let it all slip away without a fight.
And the wolves are beginning to howl again in the mountains.
From back cover: It is snowing in the wintry mountains of northwestern Pennsylvania. Once the land of wilderness scouts, later of the boomtowns of the first American oil barons, it is now a spare country of proud men and women hanging on to their lives, dignity, and what's left of prosperity in the declining years of the twentieth century. One tough old man, W.T. Halvorsen, is not going to let it all slip away without a fight.
And the wolves are beginning to howl again in the mountains.
Ronald A. (rarendt) reviewed As the Wolf Loves Winter (Hemlock County, Bk 3) on + 107 more book reviews
David Poyer is one of my favorite authors. I have read nearly everything he has written up through the first ten novels of his wonderful Dan Lenson series; I have several here still to read, but I parcel them out, only reading one or two a year to make the pleasure last as long as possible. This is one of Poyer's earlier efforts, and I think this was the book where he really bacame the wonderful novelist that he is today.
This is the third novel of his Hemlock County trilogy, and takes place in a fictional county in north central Pennsylvania, a county with no large cities and plenty of wilderness area, where much of the action takes place - in the winter, as you would suspect (the other two books are "The Dead of Winter" and "Winter in the Heart"). There is a lot of very good outdoor writing and a "man against the wilderness" survival theme plus some murder and violence, several despicable villians, and a few corporate boardroom shenanigans. I won't say any more because I don't want to spoil it for you.
This is a five-star book, like almost all of the Dan Lenson novels.
This is the third novel of his Hemlock County trilogy, and takes place in a fictional county in north central Pennsylvania, a county with no large cities and plenty of wilderness area, where much of the action takes place - in the winter, as you would suspect (the other two books are "The Dead of Winter" and "Winter in the Heart"). There is a lot of very good outdoor writing and a "man against the wilderness" survival theme plus some murder and violence, several despicable villians, and a few corporate boardroom shenanigans. I won't say any more because I don't want to spoil it for you.
This is a five-star book, like almost all of the Dan Lenson novels.
