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Lonesome Animals (2012)

by Bruce Holbert(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1582438064 (ISBN13: 9781582438061)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Counterpoint

review 1: In some ways this reminded me of Cormac McCarthy's "No Country For Old Men." There's a rural sheriff, there are gruesome murders, there's a search for the perpetrator. But Holbert takes this way further than McCarthy, making "No Country For Old Men" seem like a walk in the park. For one thing, there is no big pile of drug money to provide a motive for the murders. For another, the sheriff seems as murderous as the murderer being sought -- so much so, that he's a suspect himself in these creepy killings, and a viable one, too. This whodunit is set in north central Washington state on and around the Colville Indian reservation. Holbert's narrative does a great job of taking you through the scenery of the area, giving you this surreal sense for the beauty of the place a... morend the evil of most human hearts. Too grim for my taste, even after just finishing two Stephen King novels.
review 2: I like to read violent, gritty books--books that push me out of my comfort zone and leave me shaken. With that said, there were passages in Lonesome Animals that blew right past unsettling and flat-out frightened me. The prose, while I found it occasionally difficult to follow, is incredible. As other reviewers have mentioned, it reminded me a great deal of The Sisters Brothers and No Country for Old Men. People who liked the raw characters and strong sense of place in Donald Ray Pollack's work might also enjoy (if that's the word) this book. less

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