The Loop
by Nicholas Evans | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0440224624 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0440224624 Global Overview for this book
Registered by ScrappyCat58 of Henderson, Nevada USA on 9/27/2005
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Things aren't going too well for wolf biologist Helen Ross. At 29, she's unemployed (recently retired dishwasher), single (boyfriend of two years left her for Africa), and has just learned that her father is marrying someone younger, richer, and prettier than herself (completely accurate). Back in her lonely log cabin in Cape Cod, frantically chain-smoking, she receives a message from her former lover Dan Prior. Prior, also a biologist, works for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service wolf-recovery program. In return for helping him track the lupine posse, Prior will provide her with a cabin, truck, and a snowmobile for good measure in a rustic little town called Hope, just outside of Helena, Montana. Apparently, Ross has never heard the proverb "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is," and happily skips off to Big Sky Country.
Within moments of her arrival, she finds out what she's up against: a small town with a long history of wolf fear and loathing, no resources (big surprise), and a powerful rancher who will do whatever it takes to eliminate the wolves. The rancher, testosterone-saturated Buck Calder, has got the community riled up after a wolf stalked his daughter's home and killed the family dog. He won't stop until every last endangered wolf is dead, which proves problematic for Ross when she decides to romance his 18-year-old son, Luke. Cynics be warned: their love affair spawns a trove of gooey pillow talk and syrupy prose. Even so, Evans has made impressive strides as a writer since his debut novel, The Horse Whisperer, and his storytelling has reached a noticeably new level of sophistication: the plot is tight, the characterization is realistic, and the dialogue is crisp.
Things aren't going too well for wolf biologist Helen Ross. At 29, she's unemployed (recently retired dishwasher), single (boyfriend of two years left her for Africa), and has just learned that her father is marrying someone younger, richer, and prettier than herself (completely accurate). Back in her lonely log cabin in Cape Cod, frantically chain-smoking, she receives a message from her former lover Dan Prior. Prior, also a biologist, works for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service wolf-recovery program. In return for helping him track the lupine posse, Prior will provide her with a cabin, truck, and a snowmobile for good measure in a rustic little town called Hope, just outside of Helena, Montana. Apparently, Ross has never heard the proverb "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is," and happily skips off to Big Sky Country.
Within moments of her arrival, she finds out what she's up against: a small town with a long history of wolf fear and loathing, no resources (big surprise), and a powerful rancher who will do whatever it takes to eliminate the wolves. The rancher, testosterone-saturated Buck Calder, has got the community riled up after a wolf stalked his daughter's home and killed the family dog. He won't stop until every last endangered wolf is dead, which proves problematic for Ross when she decides to romance his 18-year-old son, Luke. Cynics be warned: their love affair spawns a trove of gooey pillow talk and syrupy prose. Even so, Evans has made impressive strides as a writer since his debut novel, The Horse Whisperer, and his storytelling has reached a noticeably new level of sophistication: the plot is tight, the characterization is realistic, and the dialogue is crisp.
Reserved for ksreader.
Mailed yesterday, 11/10/05.
hmmmm.... "rancher, testosterone-saturated Buck Calder"! Sounds good to me! Thanks for the trade.
Journal Entry 5 by ksreader at Friend in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, trades, Kansas USA on Tuesday, January 3, 2006
Released 18 yrs ago (1/1/2006 UTC) at Friend in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, trades, Kansas USA
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(Oh, I was wrong... Buck was an ass!)
I really enjoyed this book. There was great description of the wolves and good development of relationships between characters. It surprised me that there wasn't more about Dan Prior, but I realized why as I kept reading. Highly reccommended, I passed this one on to my best friend. (who has yet to make a journal entry on any of the books I give her!) Still love ya though, MJ!
(Oh, I was wrong... Buck was an ass!)
I really enjoyed this book. There was great description of the wolves and good development of relationships between characters. It surprised me that there wasn't more about Dan Prior, but I realized why as I kept reading. Highly reccommended, I passed this one on to my best friend. (who has yet to make a journal entry on any of the books I give her!) Still love ya though, MJ!