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rated for winter temperatures.
How would she know that?
She pulled out a pair of men’s sunglasses.
If she needs something, it will appear!
Caucasian man
His race is necessary!
she found scarves, a thick fur winter cap, and a pair of gloves and mittens. The second shelf contained a compass,
a bunch of paracord, a canteen, a flashlight, a neatly folded, unused brown tarp, and a folding knife. And nestled far back at the bottom, a black backpack.
A further search of the kitchen revealed several Zippo lighters, waterproof matches, and a can opener. After she’d packed MREs, granola bars, canned tuna, canned peaches, two packages of beef jerky, a canister of mixed nuts, a bag of Doritos, and a camping pan,
How convenient to find all this stuff... but Doritos?
creative bit of webbing and knot-tying.
Hard to do with a mangled hand.
Her parents weren’t survivalists or preppers, but they’d taught her how to stay alive in the harsh northern winters.
Convenient.
Djarum Black clove cigarettes
Branding?
Zippo
Branding
1979 Chevy Blazer.
Branding
2016 black Ford F350
Branding
Sig Sauer P320 pistol
Branding
He had his KA-BAR combat knife on him. His Sig Sauer. And his Winchester Model 70 Featherweight in .270 with a Nightforce SHV 3–10x42 mm scope that cost more than the rifle, and plenty of .270 Win cartridges in his emergency pack.
He would need all that to kill a woman in a cage? Stupid paragraph to point out specific weapons?
bright red bag of Doritos.
How convenient she grabbed a bag of Doritos when she was gathering food on which to survive. I thought that was weird when I read it, but now I get it.
She released the breath she didn’t remember holding.
That ever present sentence that is in practically every single thriller-type book. Amazing how so many people can hold their breath without knowing it.
took a minute to rehydrate
A weird expression. How about took a drink or drank some water?
His Gerber MK II tactical knife was sheathed at his belt along with his Glock 19.
What's with the details on the weapons? Why?
He didn’t have much,
He had twelve months of supplies
A year's worth of supplies isn't " much"? Sounds like much to me.
jimmied the lock,
With what? This time we get no details?
tactical knife.
Why not just knife? The tactical word is completely unnecessary.
He kept a rubber doorstop in his go-bag for
extra security when he traveled anywhere away from home.
Riiiiiight...
100 percent
This is so ridiculous. We need to know they are,"100 percent "??
grape-sized dollop
And that the dollop is "grape-sized"?
A memory struck her, far in the blurry past of her before—shouting matches in the living room, tears and crying and arguments and ultimatums. A slammed door.
Of course. So she can have the hots for this guy at some point in this series. She has to be unhappily married.
peered out the window into the pitch blackness,
Making a perfect target of himself because there is light inside the cabin. Pike could have shot him in the head.
Gerber MK II tactical knife and Glock 19
Again with details we already know? What's the point?
a back injury.
Five crushed discs
But he could carry an unconscious woman through deep snow for more than a mile with no ill effect. Hmmmm...
a depressed woman who’d never been much of a mother.
A depressed woman being beaten by her husband probably had a hard time trying to be a good mother. No sympathy there, huh?
II can tell I am at the stage where I am finding so many things about this book that I do not like. This is why all the notes.
For the next several hours, she trudged after him,
So the other guy kills a coyote as a "threat" and then leaves so they can walk away? For hours?
Not until he found her
He DID find her.
strange man she distrusted,
Why would she still not trust him?
reflective-side-down emergency blanket
Auuuugghh!!! Why wouldn't you just say emergency blanket?! We have to know the reflective side is supposed to face down? Or that it even has a reflective side? WHY???
He kept a stash of caffeine pills in his go-bag for situations just like this.
Of COURSE he did. And "just like this" because he's going to save a woman every day and not be able to sleep.
I have to quit making notes about all the ridiculous things in this book or I have to just stop reading it.
One more thing to add to the list.
What list? She hasn't mentioned a list.
an old Hispanic woman
An 80 year old Hispanic woman living in Michigan is much more likely to speak with a Mexican accent than to sound like a hillbilly. I'm dying to know why the author made her Hispanic.
His brain couldn’t process how quickly everything had just been flipped on its head.
Neither can mine!
“I see fear in you.”
No sh*t, Sherlock.
Their tracks were deep and easy to follow.
He doesn't have to track them. He just saw them in the house. Dumb.
They’d already left by the time he reached the house.
So no explanation as to where he went after he found them in the cabin? Why they had no trouble getting out and walking for two days and he's nowhere around?
He punched her twice in the stomach.
Isn't it hard to hit someone in the stomach if they're sitting in a chair?
Recognition was far too underrated. It was the one negative to what he did, what he was. He never received the accolades or the glory.
I don't understand this paragraph at all.
The 1999 Polaris Trail Touring
Is this author getting money for product placement or something?
“If we get separated,
Why would they get separated?
Less than a minute later, he returned.
“These aren’t desperate people stealing from their own to live. They’re from somewhere else. They’re looking
for food. Gas, if they can find it. Going to rob the town and bleed it dry. Looks like they’re starting on the south side of town and working their way north.”
He sure found out a lot in less than a minute.
