published by, Blackstone audio
Length: 10 Hours on 8 CD's
This was an interesting yet slow moving story. Esther is a
city girl whose mother dies so she goes west to live with a relative he talks
her into staking a claim on a piece of land which Esther thinks is hers and
will always be hers but there is more to this “kindness” than meets the eye.
Once Esther figures out the real reason behind it and what she has to do to
keep her land things go from bad to worse. There is also a war raging in this
little town between cattlemen and sheepherders and there is also the railroad
and I think we all know they weren’t always the good guys!
There is a romance too, which forces Esther to choose sides
in this war between the ranchers, plus some violence that opens Esther’s eyes.
This story starts very slow and even once there is a big conflict it doesn’t
pick up very much, don’t get me wrong it’s a good story it is just slow moving.
It was nice to see Esther grow into a strong independent woman.
A good look at a time in our past when our country was just
starting to really come into its own especially in the west, the homesteaders,
the railroad, and women owning land, all new in this wild land.
Tavia Gilbert’s narration of the male voices took a little
getting used to, but once I knew the characters it was fine. She did a great
job at handling all the different characters and there were quite a few
different males and females and her characterizations helped to keep all the
characters straight.
I really hated the ending I’d rather know what happened to
these people than this elusive I’m not going to tell you which I felt the
author was trying to be clever for the sake of being clever.
This one was just kind of mid ground for me there were parts
I liked and parts where I felt like screaming oh get on with it. If you like a
slow moving western you may like this one more than I did.
3 stars for the book
4 stars for the narration
So 3 ½ stars overall
I received this book from Audiobookjukebox Solid Gold
reviewer program for a fair and honest review
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