Winterkill : A Novel

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Summary: A very good book.
Review: This book was a very good book. This book was about an Indian Man who was trying to keep the ways of his ancestors and keeping up with the times. He knows many rituals that his father taught him. He has a young sone that afters years of being apart, and his ex wifes death, are together again. This book kept me intersted in what was going to happen next. The setting of this book was also set in the place that I grew up in. It is a very good book and is good for anyone to read.

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Summary: Squirel on 'drugs'
Review: Winterkill is a hard book to get into. There are constant flashbacks to the past, which makes the timeline jump around like a squirel on 'drugs'. When Jones dies the audience can see Danny's grief but cannot "feel" it.
By the end of the novel nothing in the plot has been solved or put to rest. The audience ends the book feeling like it has just read a book like "seinfeld", which is a book about nothing.

Rating:
Summary: Squirel on 'drugs'
Review: Winterkill is a hard book to get into. There are constant flashbacks to the past, which makes the timeline jump around like a squirel on 'drugs'. When Jones dies the audience can see Danny's grief but cannot "feel" it.
By the end of the novel nothing in the plot has been solved or put to rest. The audience ends the book feeling like it has just read a book like "seinfeld", which is a book about nothing.

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Summary: Well written, good characters.
Review: Winterkill is a well written book. The majority of the books appeal comes from its' realistic characters. The beginning of the book starts with Danny. This is really done well. The reader is allowed to focus and understand what has happened to Danny before Lesley starts introducing other characters. The reader doesn't feel like there are to many people to be able to keep track of. Instead Lesley introduces the other characters as he goes and as the book progresses so to does the readers knowledge of the characters. This is a very natural sequence of events that creates a well flowing story. The way that Lesley works with the past is also done well. When Danny is thinking about the past and his father, it is always relevant to what is currently happening in the story. This allows the flashbacks to fit in extremely well and be meaningful to the reader. The flashbacks themselves are also well done. They fit in with what is happening in the story but also give the reader insight into both Danny and Jack. The flashbacks are especially nice because they allow you to see not only the culture of the family but also its' past; good and bad. The short flashbacks incorporate both bits of the families Indian culture and how modern Indians are trying to cope with a changing world. The best thing is that it related three generations. The flashbacks allow you to see traditions that are being carried on through Red Shirt to Danny and finally to Jack. The ending of the book was also interesting. It starts with an elk hunt. This hunt relates back to the beginning and how Danny once shot at a wolf that was supposedly a protecting spirit. I found the ending interesting because it related what had happened with Danny and Red shirt to the modern relationship of Danny and Jack. It also showed Danny and Jack bonding together. Also it talking about the Dream! ers, this relating again the Indian culture in a very real way. I personally liked the ending because it was realistic yet still ending with Danny and Jack beginning to grow closer together. END