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Storyteller

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2020

I am a life long reader - and I read the whole genre of literature from Politics to basket weaving
with one exception, I don’t read romance novels. Kruger’s books, all 18 + of them, are without
exception the overall best writer I have ever read. After reading the first one I was hooked - I now
have all of them. He tells the story in such a way you are there with him, walking in the woods,
or facing whatever obstacles he encounters. He has a “sit on the front porch rocking chair” demeanor
that comes thru in all of his novels. I have but one promise & that is you won’t be disappointed.

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Ed8r

For many reasons, this is the worst so far.

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2018

I have been binge-reading these books one after the next, so by now I'm familiar with the characters themselves and their voices. In this book instead of character-driven dialogue, everybody just says the words the author wants them to say at that moment; people do things and say things that are out-of-character, the plot is merely driven this way and then that at the author's convenience. At first I thought it would be fun to see Cork over in Wyoming, in Absaroka County, since I just finished the Longmire mysteries before I started these. But in the end, I am disappointed and over-saturated with illogic and drivel. I'll read more, just because I'm stubborn that way, but I sure hope Krueger manages to get back in stride.

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Ed8r

For many reasons, this is the worst so far.

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2018

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Jane A. Copeland

Tha narrator ruins the story

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2020

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The narrator killed the story. He didn’t portray the characters properly nor did he seem to know how to speak in an easy flowing manner necessary for telling a story. His focus on articulating words destroyed the continuity of the sentences and I went back to reading the story. If I hadn’t I would never have finished it.

Reading a story requires the ability to bring it alive and give imaginative substance to the characters. Didn’t happen. so I found the narration tedious and lacking anything that kept my interest. If you’re going to charge for audible books, you’d better get better story tellers who don’t kill the characters and visual imagination one enjoys when reading the book.

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Tiffany

Different

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2021

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I have really been enjoying this series. I needed something to replace the C.J. Box Joe Pickett series, & for a good while, this gave me what I was looking for. I spent more than a few nights reading rather than sleeping, I liked these books so well.
This book, while I understand the author’s need to generate fresh ideas, disposed with a lot of the things I liked about Cork O’Connor.
I am currently reading Vermillion Drift, the follow-up to Heaven’s Keep, & I can say I am not liking the series as much as I did. Maybe it is because I am a mom, pushing 50, & the relationships in the book interested me as much as Cork’s adventures in the Boundary Waters did. After reading Heaven’s Keep, I can’t help feeling like I did years ago, when reaching a certain point in Patricia Cornwell’s Scarpetta series, like I just lost a bunch of friends.
I’m going to keep reading the series, based on the earlier books, but I do feel a little let down by this one. Hopefully some of my old friends make a return, or I get to meet some new ones.

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Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2020

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Housekateer

This one will stay with you awhile

Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2021

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I am a fan of William Ken Kreuger's Cork O'Conner mysteries and have read almost all them. This one is still floating in my heart as it touches on a great change in his life and the toll taken by trying to find answers. Good characters always.....Some drawn to evil, but some somehow shine above and through to keep your faith in humanity. Excellent characters with a strong Native Peoples influence throughout.

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Elizabeth du Fresne

Another Marvelous Addition to the Cork O'Connor Series

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2021

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This book features not only Cork, but the other members of the O'Connor family, especially his wife Jo and his son Steven. The book spends the.majority. of it's story in Wyoming rather than Minnesota. And with the Arapahoe reservation rather than amongst the Ojibway of Iron Lake. But as always in Krueger's books Cork's struggles with competing moral issues and his.persistence when all around him have ceased to stay the course is the heart of what we focus on. This is perhaps the most challenging of the struggles Cork has had to face. I read the book in one sitting .I simply could not go to sleep till I knew the answer to the question posed.

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smflarry

A very weak story -- ridiculous at times

Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2019

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I have read all of the Cork O’Connell novels (in order) through my last one, Heaven’s Keep. This story is among my very least favorites in the series so far — it was extremely slow until the beginning of the “Found” section, then it picked up and would never end. Tedious! Anyway, please help me: How did Jo dig herself out of the buried airplane with a mortal wound to her chest?; why did Nightwind spare her out of all the rest in the plane?; and how did she end up in some secret hospice in Mexico? I re-read the last chapters several times and I still cannot find any answers to my questions. Can anyone enlighten me, please?

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Richard Stroud

Only hate guns when other people have them? You'll love this book.

Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2021

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Easily the worst book of the series so far. I havn't decided if I'll keep reading any more of this series. I've been able to forgive the author's total ignorance regarding firearms, but the anti-gun sermons are getting to be too much. If firearms are so bad, perhaps it's a bit hypocritical to continue to write about a character who has killed many people with them, and dispite a stated distate towards them, has zero compunction arming himself again in this book.

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Perry B. Alers, aka peebee

A bittersweet winner

Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2014

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I have been able to read the Cork O'Connor books in sequence, and I was afraid that after Red Knife, Mr. Krueger was finally running out of steam. In Heaven's Keep, he has redeemed himself. He has always been able to dream up really different situations for Cork, thereby keeping the stories fresh, and this time he got another winner, albeit a bittersweet one. This time Cork's wife, Jo, is apparently lost in a plane crash in a Wyoming blizzard and the action consists of Cork's search for her - the wreckage is not found. It is gratifying to see how skillfully Mr. Kreuger quietly contrasts the fanged terrain of the western ranges of Wyoming with the more gentle wilderness of the North Woods of Minnesota and Wisconsin, his usual setting. Also he permanently changes Cork's family: his two girls are already grown and away at school, and Stevie, his small son, is now, at 13, emphatically Stephen. He even undergoes the ritual adult initiation ceremonies of the Ojibwe with tribal shaman Henry Melloux while Cork is in Wyoming. Future volumes will thus find a much more solitary Cork; it will be interesting to see how Mr. Kreuger develops him.

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Grayjay

Disappointing Book in a Great Series

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2019

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I am reading this series in order, and have loved them all until Heaven's Keep. The book moved very slowly, and since Cork was in Wyoming most of the book, none of his regular characters were involved. The plot became very unbelievable and finally had a disappointing ending. I'll give Krueger one bad book, but I sure hope the next one, Vermilion Drift, gets back in the groove.

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