by Lori G. Armstrong, Jennifer Van Dyck
When Mercy Gunderson was 18 she lit out of small town South Dakota like her pants were on fire and stayed gone (for twenty years) until forced to return by her father's death and her military injury. Mercy does not like the ranching life and hasn't decided to remain until someone starts threatening ...
I fell in love with the author's writing style after reading her PI Julie Collins series and I couldn't resist trying this one to see if my rather high expectancy could possible be met again.I'm very please to say that yes it was in fact possible. I never had a dull moment and I thought the plot wa...
Gritty, emotional - which seems an odd way to describe it since Armstrong goes out of her way to make Mercy unemotional. The setting becomes its own character. The harsh land of South Dakota paints the bleak setting for this rather bleak novel.I usually despise 1st person; in fact, almost set it asi...
The narration is very affected so I may try this in print.