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The Untold (2012)

by Courtney Collins(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0399167099 (ISBN13: 9780399167096)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Putnam Adult

review 1: This is a piece of fictional work based on an actual historical subject narrated by a dead baby. Yes, you read that correctly. What?!?! I commend the author for trying some thing very new here, but geez, no, this doesn't work for me. Also this is isn't a constant through out the book, some times the story is just told by the author, then poof, dead baby is back. Perhaps she is trying to give a softer mother side to a horse/cow stealing, rough living, main character. This is not a character who can be softened though, she's one tough b***h. I never could get into the book, and reprimand myself for reading it to the end.
review 2: I am a sucker for any strong female cowgirl -as a horse crazed teen from Montana I was an avid reader of Westerns (Zane Gray). Ye... morears later, I was ready for a well written Western novel featuring a woman. This came close. Set in the Australian outback, this "fiction" story is told from the voice of her dead baby (I struggled with this) but is based on a real-life woman bush-ranger and outlaw in the 1920s who is a poster woman for "True Grit" Her life on the run was an adventure but grim including prison and forced marriage to a horror of a man (she kills the bastard in a blaze of glory). This fascinating woman had many masculine skills including cattle/horse rustler and circus performer who skirts sheer cliffs and lives in caves to outwit those tracking her --the two men tracking her each are driven by admiration for her; one her lover the other a lawmen (with a twist at the end). The author has a provocative writing style but the narrative from her dead baby was troubling. I was hoping for more of a Lonesome Dove appeal. This one was astonishing, disturbing and far less romantic. less

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