Review: Mojave Masterpiece
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 26, 2013
I can't say I liked this book quite as much as Nemesis, but they are both up there with some of the best Westerns...no, best books...I have ever read. First, this is a Western, good guys v. bad guys, not an insipid Western Romance. It must be quite a literary challenge to portray the frustration and hardship of a long, difficult search without passing the characters' drudgery onto the reader, and cutting to the other stories is a great way to handle it and keep the pages turning. So, the plot never dragged, with several stories running simultaneously, until they finally converge in the most fascinating ways. It is a book full of richly-drawn and fascinating characters as well as a perilous search and rescue--well, two perilous searches and rescues. I'm no expert, but the author seems to have put in a lot of work keeping the historical and geographical milieus authentic and almost as much of a character in the story as the humans and the animals. I truly appreciate such efforts.