![]() ![]() It was nice enough that the guy finally had a personality, but to find out he was a mensch was almost too good to be true. And he shapes up to be a mensch in this book. Here, in the second book, he finally comes alive. In the first book, Leaphorn had no personality and no character. ![]() This book continues following Navajo cop Joe Leaphorn. This is scads better than the first novel - well, it would have been difficult to be WORSE. I would have abandoned the series, but circumstances beyond my control motivated me to pick up the second book.Īnd I'm glad I did. Then I came back and forced myself to finish it. "Why were these books so popular?" I wondered. The first book, The Blessing Way, was a horrible combination of boredom and confusion. I wasn't even going to continue with this series. The unit became a sequence, the dot became a line, and lines tended to extend, to lead places, to move in directions. But two homicides linked by time, place, participants and, most important, motivation presented something more complex. It seemed to him that a single homicide could be thought of as a unit - as something in which an act of violence contained beginning and end, cause and result. ![]()
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