Before her father died, she had been happy as an admin in a Billings hospital. Angie decides to throw in the towel and sell her spread, the land and her home, and move on with her life.
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Plus his website is up to date and his facilities are more modern. People, particularly the big game hunters, prefer to hire Dare. She’s been losing a tremendous amount of business to Dare Callahan, a war veteran, who has set himself as a guide in Montana. She doesn’t recognize her own strengths (catering to families and other women) and instead runs the business focused on hunters and fisherman, like her dad did. According to my notes, I was up to 244 of 300+ pages and I think we had about 10 pages of dialogue and interaction between the two.Īngie Powell runs a wilderness hiking business she inherited from her dad and not very well. The small glimpses of interaction I saw between the hero and heroine were fun and interesting but so so few. If you are going out to hunt bears, wouldn’t you plan for bears? Why would the mob boss be by himself? But when the bear shows up, the accountant thinks to himself that he never planned for a bear despite the fact that they were going BEAR HUNTING. After all, the accountant believed that the mob boss was starting to get suspicious of the accountant’s activities.
Yet, why does he think that shooting the mob boss makes sense? Why not just escape to Mexico? I was never quite sure why the mob boss went with the accountant. He is afraid of the mob boss’s associates. Was it to show him as sympathetic? Was it to create increased atmosphere? Was it some unique literary technique they are experimenting with in the litfic world?Īs for the accountant, he was supposed to be very clever, so clever that he as leading his mob boss off to this wilderness trip to go bear hunting and plans to kill the boss and the hunting guide and then will escape to Mexico with his money.
I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to take from seeing the bear’s point of view. He was downwind of the heard, the cold mountain air bringing the scent sharp and clear to his nostrils…He went into a frenzy of destruction, bellowing his rage and frustrationĪs he took out his killing fury on the vegetation… It’s not presented as a particularly loveable, lumbering bear, but one that is intent on eating, well, hikers and whomever else it can get it’s jaws on. I don’t read a lot of mainstream so maybe this is normal? Having scenes from an animal’s point of view. Instead, the book treats me to several scenes from the primary antagonist, an accountant who is fleecing his mobster boss, a long scene from a random hiker, and yes, even a black bear.
My assessment and my disappointment stems from the fact that I wanted more interaction between the male and female protagonists. For that reason, I have a hard time grading “Prey.” Maybe if I was a mainstream fiction reader or a mainstream thriller reader, I would read this book differently. But ever since your move to hardcover, I have felt that you’ve taken your work in a direction that I wasn’t prepared.
Some of your titles would be on that list. In a recent podcast, Sarah Wendell and I talked about how there are titles we would like to have rebound into collector’s items so that they can sit on our shelves and be read and admired. Jane D Reviews Contemporary / Linda-Howard / Montana / romantic-suspense 38 Comments
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