Review: A Compelling Lack of Heroes
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2013
JB Bergstad's 'Hyde's Corner' is the first in an expected trilogy that follows, via flashback, the story of the Burks and the Hydes, two families pitted against each other in mid-nineteenth century America. The patriarchs of each family are set in opposition - Sheriff Selmer Burke and Cedric Hyde. Their tale of hardship and revenge spans three decades of Oklahoma history, and neither man is a hero, in any sense of the word. Nevertheless, the rambling and violent story of their families' tangled lives makes for good, if gritty, western genre fun.