Wow what a wonderful book. I didn't nearly expect this when I picked this up at my local library. Not even close. I was looking for a western genre type of book and this book was one of the harder ones to find. I lucked out that my Library had it on their shelf.
Now this is not your typical western. It doesnt have Outlaws but it has murder. It has betrayal. More importantly it shows the courage and the strength to overcome one's wrongdoing and differences to pull together with one another to survive amongst the land. This doesn't just follow young love, it follows two families uniting as one. It follows two young women, one who lost her husband to the other woman's husband who murdered him. The other woman losing her husband to prison for 2 years for his murder deed. The two women bringing their family together under hardship so that both will survive the winters alone and not starve themselves or their children to death. Being neighborly even though your neighbor had sinned and done you wrong. It has a bit of wonder and magic of living on a prairie. On living on a land so vast and isolated that it can be suffocating if one is not used to it. How the grass the clouds the trees and the wildlife are your form of society even if you don't see it.
Truly an amazing book. I was captivated to the very end. I cried. I laughed. I got rightfully angry even at some points. Brilliantly written Olivia Hawker.
Now this is not your typical western. It doesnt have Outlaws but it has murder. It has betrayal. More importantly it shows the courage and the strength to overcome one's wrongdoing and differences to pull together with one another to survive amongst the land. This doesn't just follow young love, it follows two families uniting as one. It follows two young women, one who lost her husband to the other woman's husband who murdered him. The other woman losing her husband to prison for 2 years for his murder deed. The two women bringing their family together under hardship so that both will survive the winters alone and not starve themselves or their children to death. Being neighborly even though your neighbor had sinned and done you wrong.
It has a bit of wonder and magic of living on a prairie. On living on a land so vast and isolated that it can be suffocating if one is not used to it. How the grass the clouds the trees and the wildlife are your form of society even if you don't see it.
Truly an amazing book. I was captivated to the very end. I cried. I laughed. I got rightfully angry even at some points. Brilliantly written Olivia Hawker.