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Peter Heller, The Last Ranger

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Burn: A Novel

By Peter Heller.

Design Kelly Blair.

Painting by Paul Dougherty.

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Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.

Peter Heller, Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River

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He knew himself: how he loved to hold time in aneyance, or try. He could never, of course, because time, like everything else, flowed through his cupped fingers like water, and he knew he could barely stave off anything that was already in motion.

The Last Ranger

Peter Heller

11.19.2023

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Mystery/Thriller Monday

Jack is a wilderness guide at the Kingfisher Lodge, a retreat away from everything for very rich people. He’s on what seems like an easy job. Take a famous singer to fish and actually get fish. But, then, there’s a scream. And, suddenly, Jack is questioning what in the world Kingfisher Lodge is, because, apparently it’s not just a fishing lodge.

I don’t usually do sequels (this is a sequel to The River which also has Jack in it), but, I thought that it was very readable even if you didn’t read the first book. It was definitely twisty and turney for quite a bit of it, keeping me guessing, and, overall it was a thought provoking book by an author whose work I really enjoy.

You may like this book If you Liked: Hunters in the Dark by Lawrence Osborne, Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin, or A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson

The Guide by Peter Heller

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They formed a kind of net that protected Ren from his most perilous falls.

Peter Heller, The Last Ranger

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Appâtée par les bons avis sur ce livre, je me suis plongée dedans. Après tout, je gardais un assez bon souvenir des deux livres que j’avais lu de cet auteur, et il s’avère que celui-ci est précisément la suite de La rivière, lu l’an dernier. Mais j’ai relu ma « critique » d’alors, et le « hic » que j’avais déjà relevé (et un peu oublié) perdure.

On a présenté ce livre comme une alliance parfaite entre thriller et nature writing. C’est un peu vrai. Mais moi, qui ai lu le livre volontiers, je ne veux pas tout critiquer et c’est un bon page-turner, je trouve qu’il faudrait surtout dire que c’est plutôt un mélange de romance et de roman d’aventures. Ce n’est pas une insulte, mais bon, il faut croire que c’est moins mon truc. Comme pour La rivière, la précision de la narration quant aux actes effectués par les protagonistes m’ennuie. Quand Pete Fromm parle dépêche à la mouche, il me passionne. Quand c’est Peter Heller, je baille. Et le suspense lié à l’affaire qui empoisonne le lodge pour pêcheurs fortunés m’a souvent paru peu crédible, voire carrément grotesque. En conséquence, le final, pétaradant et explosif m’a laissée de marbre.

Il y a trop de technique, de faits rapportés qui montrent la mécanique des protagonistes. Je pense que c’est caractéristique des romans d’aventures, mais c’est précisément ce qui agit sur moi comme soporifique.

Pour finir sur une note plus positive, la description de la nature est très réussie, et la culpabilité du héros, Jack, est bien rendue. On comprend ce qui l’anime. On apprécie son côté loyal et son goût pour les haïkus.

Ce sera tout pour moi.

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Travel destination: Canada

The River by Peter Heller

A gripping tale of friendship tested by fire, white water and violence.

Wynn and Jack have been friends since freshman, Wynn is a gental giant while Jack is a bit more rugged, when they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddling and hanging out however a wildfire is fast approaching adding a sense of urgency and to add to it they hear a couple fighting and decide to warn them of approaching danger, however they couldn’t find them, the next day they see a man paddling alone, was it the same man? And if it was where was the woman gone?

City of the Lost by Kelley Armstrong

After a close call with her past detective Casey and her best friend decide to leave the city and head for a remote community in Canada of like minded people running from their own pasts.

However not everything is right in this small closed off town full of secrets and now a body.

The Dark Beneath the Ice by Amelinda Bérubé

Something is wrong with Marianne, it’s not her parents divorce, or that she quit dancing, it that she’s losing time, doing things she would never do, things are breaking around her and the only one who believes her is the local psychic daughter.

But not everything goes to plan.

The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan

In a near future Toronto surrounded by environmental chaos and unsettling new lifeform begins to grow beneath the surface feeding on the past.

Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury

A mind bending psychological thriller set in a mansion following two teenage girls 10 years apart.

As Brittney investigates the mansion in the present, Dasiy’s story runs parallel a decade before, both stories propelling the girls to face the most dangerous monsters, the ones that hide in plain sight.

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Peter Heller’s Burn taps into our fears of divided-country extremes but eschews politics for a moving testimony to lifelong friendship.

Emerging from the remote wilderness of northern Maine after two weeks of moose hunting, Jess and Storey are confounded by clues suggesting that something has gone terribly wrong. The bridges south have been destroyed and the first two towns they encounter heading north are both smoldering in ashes.  They have no access to the outside world, no cell bars, nothing but static from radio stations.…

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He is at home with his solitude as the note reverberating inside a bell. Prefers it. Will protect it to the death.

The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

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Review: The Guide by Peter Heller

Author: Peter HellerPublisher: Alfred A. KnopfReleased: August 24, 2021Received: Own (Book Club) Find it on Goodreads | More Thrillers Book Summary: Jack is no stranger to guilt and loss. Yet his most recent loss has him reeling. Desperate to escape it all, he takes on a position to work as a guide in what feels like the middle of nowhere. With the pandemic rising, the isolation is only going…

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After I finished my 88th book of the year I discover it’s a sequel 😒.

I think though I just spoiled myself on the character who dies in the book before, so luckily if I read it I’ll be emotionally prepared.

Frustrating though. Oh well.

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Source: Apple Books

Wow, The Last Ranger is excellent: I was completely hooked from the start by Peter Heller’s vivid descriptions of Yellowstone National Park, along with the cast of compelling—both human and animal—characters.

Growing up close to nature then, in my 20s, living by a national park, I found certain elements of the book familiar: the salt-of-the-earth locals, the tourists’ complete lack of common sense around wild animals, and the stunning stillness of the mountains.

Also, I appreciated how eloquently Heller weaves in themes of conservation (without coming across as preachy)—one of my favourite books of the year!