Scalped Vol 1 - Indian Country by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera
Indian Country introduces us to Dashiell Bad Horse, a native to The Prairie Rose Reservation, South Dakota. The first thing Dash does is get into a fight with fifteen guys in a bar. With nunchaku, no less! He is, to put it mildly, looking for trouble. He's been off the Rez for fifteen years and has just come back for reasons of his own. So Bad Horse starts working for Lincoln Red Crow, the Council Tribal President who essentially runs the reservation. He is also working on opening up a huge Casino.
It takes awhile to figure out why Bad Horse has come back and it isn't so he can reconnect with his mother. He's an undercover FBI agent who's been sicced on Red Crow by probably the most miserable and hateful FBI minder ever to "grace" South Dakota with his presence: Special Agent Nitz. Nitz has an axe to grind with Red Crow that goes back twenty some years to the murder of two FBI agents on the Prairie Rose Reservation.
This comic is harsh, nothing romantic about it and the people are hard and live hard. There's shootings, meth lab busts, rampant sex, organized crime intrigue, plus betrayal, and scalping (hence the title).
This series is not an easy one to read but I've been intrigued by the series for awhile so thought I would give it a try. I'm already waiting for the next volume - so far there are 6 total.
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Edge of Winter by Luanne Rice
A maimed owl and a sunken U-boat spark an inordinate amount of activism, romance and multigenerational family healing in this winsome melodrama. Out to observe a single rare snowy owl, high school beauty and passionate bird-watcher Mickey crashes her bicycle and goes sailing into the arms of soulful surfer-dude Shane. She joins his guerrilla campaign to prevent greedy developer Cole Landry from raising said U-boat from its resting place just off their local Rhode Island beach, where the underwater hulk churns up sublimely gnarly waves.
Meanwhile, Mickey's struggling divorced mom, Neve, falls for hunky park ranger Tim, who has his own anguished reasons for revering the submarine. When the developer's son, Josh, bashes the owl with a log, Mickey, Shane and Neve take it to an ancient raptor healer, who, in an unsurprising coincidence, turns out to be Tim's estranged dad, Joe O'Casey, the commander of the navy ship that sank the U-boat.
Both storylines were interesting as we have Mickey who is trying to figure out what she is truly passionate about and her mother, Neve, is just trying to get her life back on track. The setting of East coast was interesting to me as I have never been there and who knew that there are relics from the war just off our coast.
A maimed owl and a sunken U-boat spark an inordinate amount of activism, romance and multigenerational family healing in this winsome melodrama. Out to observe a single rare snowy owl, high school beauty and passionate bird-watcher Mickey crashes her bicycle and goes sailing into the arms of soulful surfer-dude Shane. She joins his guerrilla campaign to prevent greedy developer Cole Landry from raising said U-boat from its resting place just off their local Rhode Island beach, where the underwater hulk churns up sublimely gnarly waves.
Meanwhile, Mickey's struggling divorced mom, Neve, falls for hunky park ranger Tim, who has his own anguished reasons for revering the submarine. When the developer's son, Josh, bashes the owl with a log, Mickey, Shane and Neve take it to an ancient raptor healer, who, in an unsurprising coincidence, turns out to be Tim's estranged dad, Joe O'Casey, the commander of the navy ship that sank the U-boat.
Both storylines were interesting as we have Mickey who is trying to figure out what she is truly passionate about and her mother, Neve, is just trying to get her life back on track. The setting of East coast was interesting to me as I have never been there and who knew that there are relics from the war just off our coast.
Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris
After Harper Connelly was struck by lightning as a teenager, she developed an unusual ability she is able to locate bodies and see how the victims died, although she cannot identify the murderers. This is the 2nd book of the series featuring Harper and her stepbrother Tolliver Lang.
Harper and Tolliver, are in Memphis, at Bingham College doing a demonstration for a class, identifying bodies and causes of death in an old graveyard. But suddenly Harper is confused as she finds not one body but 2 and one ends up being the body of Tabitha Morgenstern, a kidnapped young girl she had failed to locate 2 years ago in Nashville. Even more strange is the family of the young girl now live in Memphis.
Suddenly everyone wants something from Harper, reporters, the family, and of course the police assume they had something to do with it. So Harper and Tolliver check into a fancy hotel with a large suite which becomes a meeting place for all kinds of interesting characters who think they know more than they do.
This was a well done who-done-it and I did not suspect the real killer. I enjoy how Harris writes who dialog and creates the atmosphere that should be spooky but isn't. She has a real ability to make me feel sympathy for her damaged characters.
After Harper Connelly was struck by lightning as a teenager, she developed an unusual ability she is able to locate bodies and see how the victims died, although she cannot identify the murderers. This is the 2nd book of the series featuring Harper and her stepbrother Tolliver Lang.
Harper and Tolliver, are in Memphis, at Bingham College doing a demonstration for a class, identifying bodies and causes of death in an old graveyard. But suddenly Harper is confused as she finds not one body but 2 and one ends up being the body of Tabitha Morgenstern, a kidnapped young girl she had failed to locate 2 years ago in Nashville. Even more strange is the family of the young girl now live in Memphis.
Suddenly everyone wants something from Harper, reporters, the family, and of course the police assume they had something to do with it. So Harper and Tolliver check into a fancy hotel with a large suite which becomes a meeting place for all kinds of interesting characters who think they know more than they do.
This was a well done who-done-it and I did not suspect the real killer. I enjoy how Harris writes who dialog and creates the atmosphere that should be spooky but isn't. She has a real ability to make me feel sympathy for her damaged characters.
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