Not that the book was a total waste of time but the story was just bland - especially after having read Alias Grace, The Tenderness of Wolves, and The Silence of the North. I wish there was a better start to the new year, but this is the first book I finished and it was disappointing. Questions that were unanswered and unanswerable. Wondering at the particulars of her past, the whiff of crime, her dreadful pursuers, recounting the incredible fact of her firing upon them. Then a long, sorry, sober night during which the dwarf had chattered to stave off his companion’s unnerving silence, telling story after story, every one about her. And even if you knew”- he spread his small hands out -“what could you do? Are you Sam Steele?” The two of them drunk for two days, until the Ridgerunner could drink no more, and merely sat holding his head. At first he was quite hesitant, he´s more of a fantasy story fan, but just now he said, ´well, the story is gripping indeed´. I can also see this book turn into a movie, and a great one too. You think you are heading towards a clear ending and then. This writer has done poetry I understand, and I can see that, because the descriptions are sometimes beautifully poetic. I can see the comparison with Cormac McCarthy, one of my favorites, it being a dark story of an individual struggling to stay alive in wilderness surroundings, but the difference is that Cormac´s style is sober and direct. Especially the mine town part of the story is wonderful. But once she gets into contact with other people in the story, it comes alive. The language and descriptions of the wilderness are beautiful, but after three pages of it, I thought, ´ok, noted about the wilderness beauty and cruelty, and now some action please´. A little slow in the beginning, especially the scenes where the Widow, Mary, is alone, were too long for me. About a young woman running for her two brothers in law, in the Canadian wilderness, around 1900, after having killed her husband, this is not a real spoiler, it is clear right from the start I guess.
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