Forests of the Night by James W. Hall Buy book: $15.71
A centuries-old legacy of deception and betrayal flares in Florida and the Great Smoky Mountains, and a tough female protagonist must uncover the sinister conspiracy it has spawned in this latest atmospheric thriller from master-writer Hall.
I am getting creeped out reading about past injustices to the Cherokee Nation: what went on then is going on now, one place or another, worldwide. Here in California such injustices were meted out to plenty of other native Nations. So I'm waiting, with trepidation, to find out how the author worked the facts of the past into a modern crime scenario.
Haven't read this author before and am always looking for new authors, mystery, or otherwise - just read a long excerpt of this book and good for me they have a copy at my library - so put a hold on it - thanks Suzanne, for another promising mystery - and yes, I, too, am disturbed by the aforementioned treatment of the Native Americans -
Not so many responses to this mystery - I am currently reading one of the series of "McNally" books by the now deceased Lawrence Sanders, and which are now being written by Vincent Lardo, I believe is the name - with the permission of course by the Sanders' estate -
If you like a delightful, witty self absorbed protagonist who is the "discreet investigator" for his attorney father, give this one a try - I discovered the series years ago courtesy of my brother and was delighted to find recently that the series is still alive and well - You can start with the very first or come in anywhere in between and think you will enjoy -
Hello Linda, Doris, Brenda and anyone else that are too shy to reply.
My name is Zoe and I have been a memeber of this bookclub for some time but has not participate in sharing my thoughts and comments on any of the books that the Dear Readers bookclubs that I'm a member of. There is a number of reasons why. One because my town Library may not have the book or that someone else has it and I will not get it in time.
Just like this week's book. My town Library has two copys of, Forests of the night, by James W. Hall. But both are borrow out.
For now though, I will share my thoughts and comments on the book and I'm hopeing any day now I'll get a copying of it, so I can share my thoughts all the way though the book.
I don't know about you, but I allways think of the book jacket as a bait on a fishing hook, and I'm the fish going around looking for the most tasty looking bait. Some times I will know it's not a good bait by the looks of it, (I'm meaning the title of the book, I know there's a saying: "Never judge a book by it's cover" but I still do that.) and there are some that I will nibble at but turn out to be a boring or hard to understand book, specially when you live half an hour out of town. But not with this week's book. I gollop down the hook, line and sinker and give it a great pull and the author pulls me on to a journey.
The like the title, as it give a mystery sound to it. The book jacket is great too, it's readlly pull me into the story. Charlotte Monroe, the Patrol woman, with the psychic intuition. Who's here would say you have psychic abilitys? I think I may know of my psychic ability. I can feel people emotions from them by looking at them or by having a gut feeling about it. Some times I can just walk into a room and have a gut feeling that there was a fight going to on some time before I walk in to the room. Dose anyone else have the some feelings and intuitions as I do?
The begining of this book is just wonderful. The beautiful way that James W. Hall describe Tsali's family, the world around him. I can easy say that James W. Hall will be one of the best authors in the world, even though I just read the first part of the book. James will be standing lineside with Terry Goodkind and other great authers that I have read.
It's funny to read this book, as at the moment we are coming to a end of other hot summer season. I'm from Australia, by the way. When in Tsali's life, it's going into winter. And Tsali and he's two eldest sons are sharpening there ax blade. I chop wood too. For our hot water system.
It would be hard to leave your home, just because President Andrew Jackson order it to be. Specially when your ancestors had life for some long there. I wish I have a riverside farm past down to me. I like to be more self-sufficiency, by having chooks (chooks means hens, which I have know, but that's because I'm still living with my parents), and I love to have a Jersey milking cow, and many other animals too.
I wonder what this have to do with Charlotte Monroe chilling warning for her husband, writen on a note scrawlen in Cherokee hieroglyphics. But even with what I have readed, I have some idea on what will come and how they are two connect into this story.
Linda, I don't get creeped out by reading past injustices of anyone not just the Cherokee Nation, but I allways find if storys are base on real history, I get a better insight to how they feel about it, then I would from history books. History books, well what I have readed, just give you dates of when this would have happen, but no insight on the emotions impact that they would have gone though. I'm waiting on end of my siting waiting for what to come.
Doris, I too have read along excerpt of this book and now have this long comments for you all to read. Suzanne really knows her books.
Brenda, this book will be get for you to visit the place the Cherohee resevation. It's one thing to read the book and the go to the places. Now that's creeping.
Hello Linda, Doris, Brenda and anyone else that are too shy to reply.
Sorry everyone that my last thoughts of the book was so long, then everyone else. It's just that I find lots to talk about and I don't get my emails, till late in the evening, because I'm from Australia. I do hope that you will find something there on my comments, for you to reply back. As that's what I was hopeing you will do. So we can have a conversation of the book, then just putting our thoughts out and not talking more about it.
I can guess that someone at the present day of Charlotte Monroe life have be infect by the hard discretion that Tsali had to make. Even though he's sacrifice not made a monument in his honor for all time, but to olny to his people. But for what he did sent a ripple though all time. And I think that someone would have be infect by it and some how wants puy back for what the Cherokee people went though. I also think that Charlotte maybe ancestor of someone who made the Cherokee people move and kill them. That's how I think the author will tie everything to together, Brenda.
At first, I though that Charlotte Monroe was in the some room with the red-haired boy with he's handgun raise towards the black cat. And Charlotte had only sixty seconds to stop he from shoting the cat. But, then you find out it's just a videotape and that she is getting tested to find out if some ordinary patrol officer can tell what's going to happen before it dose, by just reading the body language. And that she is getting them more right, then Dr. Fedderman's software is. But because you all really know this. I allways think, that machine will never be as good as people are. And I hope it will start that way. I don't want anything to happen like many movies and books have on robots. Like what happen in the movie, 'I, Robot'. Who had Will Smith into.
I have and do visit Cherokee. I even attempted to learn the language but I wasn't able to get the pronunication right. It is a difficult language to learn. I was a nurse and worked about 20 minutes away from Cherokee, so I had the opportunity to interact with lots of people from Cherokee.There is a hospital in Cherokee but they did not do all procedures needed
I was thinking Charolotte would be related to Tsali and not know that piece of information. The Shamans see and know things others do not just by observing. I can't remember was Tsali a shaman but he was very observant of things around him. I also think Charlotte will meet up with some of the ancestors who killed Tsali's family. I am definitly going to check this book from out of the library. It written to make you want to know what will happen next.
