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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
A little too violent for me, but I still love Joe. And, yep, Box has a fine eye for the landscape.
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
It's been about a year since a Joe Pickett book, and jumping into this one feels like a reunion with old friends. Only bloodier and way more intense than any of my regular coffee dates.
There is comfort in reading a book series as the main characters are well known and familiar.
Joe is assigned a trainee and his friend Nate is being extra cautious since his girlfriend was killed in an attack on him. When a bunch of locals drift by his property is guard is down until he is wounded by one of the boaters. That sets Nate off to find the source of the attempts on his life.
Joe is assigned a trainee and his friend Nate is being extra cautious since his girlfriend was killed in an attack on him. When a bunch of locals drift by his property is guard is down until he is wounded by one of the boaters. That sets Nate off to find the source of the attempts on his life.
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
All Nate Romanowski ever wanted was to be left alone with his secrets and his guilt. He dropped out of society, went off the grid, and vanished into the wilderness. He knew at some point there could be a reckoning. In the last month his good friend, Large Merle, died just after giving him the warning – “The Five. They’ve deployed.”
Now the battle has begun and has come in an unexpected form. Lucky to survive, Nate can’t make any more mistakes. Not only does he have to convince those he loves, such as Game Warden Joe Pickett and his family, to run for their own safety he also has to take the battle to the enemy. The same enemy who trained him all those years ago.
While billed as “A Joe Picket novel” this book is primarily a Nat Romanowski book. Long standing questions regarding his background and behavior are finally answered in detail. The reasons given are complex, compelling, and completely true to character.
Because so much of the book is geared toward Nate Romanowski, Joe Pickett and his family become secondary characters in the work. A couple of recent ongoing storylines continue in this novel but are not developed further. What little readers see of Joe Pickett and his family is mainly geared towards Joe and Nate’s friendship and trust and repercussions of that.
Force of Nature: A Joe Pickett Novel builds off of events in Cold Wind and does so very well. However, it is not necessary to have read that book before you read this one though it clearly would be best. Potential readers who are unfamiliar with the series should note that this is one of those series where characters age and evolve as life happens to them. Nothing is static here and hasn’t been since it began long ago in Open Season.
Force of Nature: A Joe Pickett Novel
C. J. Box
http://www.cjbox.net
G.P. Putnam’s Sons (Penguin Group USA)
http://www.penguin.com
2012
ISBN# 978-0-399-15826-1
Hardback
392 Pages
$25.95
Material supplied by the good folks of the Plano Texas Public Library System. Again this year the summer reading challenge for adults and kids is now underway. For more information go to
http://www.plano.gov/Departments/Libraries/Pages/default.aspx
Kevin R. Tipple ©2012
More reviews at http://kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/
Now the battle has begun and has come in an unexpected form. Lucky to survive, Nate can’t make any more mistakes. Not only does he have to convince those he loves, such as Game Warden Joe Pickett and his family, to run for their own safety he also has to take the battle to the enemy. The same enemy who trained him all those years ago.
While billed as “A Joe Picket novel” this book is primarily a Nat Romanowski book. Long standing questions regarding his background and behavior are finally answered in detail. The reasons given are complex, compelling, and completely true to character.
Because so much of the book is geared toward Nate Romanowski, Joe Pickett and his family become secondary characters in the work. A couple of recent ongoing storylines continue in this novel but are not developed further. What little readers see of Joe Pickett and his family is mainly geared towards Joe and Nate’s friendship and trust and repercussions of that.
Force of Nature: A Joe Pickett Novel builds off of events in Cold Wind and does so very well. However, it is not necessary to have read that book before you read this one though it clearly would be best. Potential readers who are unfamiliar with the series should note that this is one of those series where characters age and evolve as life happens to them. Nothing is static here and hasn’t been since it began long ago in Open Season.
Force of Nature: A Joe Pickett Novel
C. J. Box
http://www.cjbox.net
G.P. Putnam’s Sons (Penguin Group USA)
http://www.penguin.com
2012
ISBN# 978-0-399-15826-1
Hardback
392 Pages
$25.95
Material supplied by the good folks of the Plano Texas Public Library System. Again this year the summer reading challenge for adults and kids is now underway. For more information go to
http://www.plano.gov/Departments/Libraries/Pages/default.aspx
Kevin R. Tipple ©2012
More reviews at http://kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/
adventurous
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character