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The Hunting Season
Dense woodland. Twisting paths. It's easy to lose your way in the wilderness.
The rugged Rocky Mountains are a place some go to hide inside, some to escape into and others to hunt in. Dr Matt Seleckis has never been one for the woods: he remembers his childhood vacations there with his mother and father - and the looming threat of an unexplained death .
Now Matt lives in the mountains' shadow, in Utah with his wife and young son. Yet the prospect of a hunting trip alone with his father is bringing back dark, unwelcome memories - of a certain vacation, of his beloved parents. And of a hushed-up tragedy that he's sure concerns him.
But with the arrival of these unsettling memories comes the creeping realisation that in nature, death for the unwary lies around every corner. And in the woods, it's easy to take a wrong turn .
502 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 4, 2007
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February 11, 2019
PROTAGONIST: Dr. Matt Seleckis
SETTING: Utah
RATING: 4.25
WHY: Dr. Matt Seleckis provides a dying patient who has asked for death with excessive medication. Struggling with his conscience, Matt seeks advice from his father who was formerly a doctor and now living a solitary life outside of Salt Lake City. While there, fragmented memories from his youth haunt him. He doesn't know what is real and what is imagined. As a boy, he spent a lot of time there with the Minelli family whose father is found shot in a car. He learns that his dead mother may have had an affair with Mr. Minelli. At the same time, Matt has a wonderful home life, although he is extremely jealous of his wife's first husband, who died of illness. At home, he feels like he is being stalked, not sure if he is being paranoid. His father's insistence on going on a trip to hunt elk leads to many truths. The book is overly long (just short of 500 pages) but it held my interest throughout. The sub-plot around the mercy killing could have been much abbreviated. The book is all about families and their secrets and how they deal with reality.
SETTING: Utah
RATING: 4.25
WHY: Dr. Matt Seleckis provides a dying patient who has asked for death with excessive medication. Struggling with his conscience, Matt seeks advice from his father who was formerly a doctor and now living a solitary life outside of Salt Lake City. While there, fragmented memories from his youth haunt him. He doesn't know what is real and what is imagined. As a boy, he spent a lot of time there with the Minelli family whose father is found shot in a car. He learns that his dead mother may have had an affair with Mr. Minelli. At the same time, Matt has a wonderful home life, although he is extremely jealous of his wife's first husband, who died of illness. At home, he feels like he is being stalked, not sure if he is being paranoid. His father's insistence on going on a trip to hunt elk leads to many truths. The book is overly long (just short of 500 pages) but it held my interest throughout. The sub-plot around the mercy killing could have been much abbreviated. The book is all about families and their secrets and how they deal with reality.
September 10, 2014
Horrible. Didn't even make it half way through and I tried, I really tried
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