The Sorrow Hand by Dwight Holing
Book 1 in the Nick Drake series
Narrated by Steve Marvel
Genre: crime fiction
Format: ebook & audiobook
Book 1 in the Nick Drake series
Narrated by Steve Marvel
Genre: crime fiction
Format: ebook & audiobook
About The Sorrow Hand:
For Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake, the war at home proves just as deadly. A contemporary western thriller.
Harney County, Oregon, 1968: Nick Drake has a chest full of medals and enough demons to fill a duffle bag. He's been trained to kill, but never retrained to rejoin society. Drake flees to the lonesome high desert in search of redemption and takes a job patrolling wildlife refuges where the only conflicts are keeping out stray cows and ticketing poachers. But then he stumbles across a girl's body ritually placed in a gully. Her murder is only the beginning, and Drake must face humanity's heart of darkness once again if he's to stop a killer from turning even more gullies into graves.
Source: Info in the "About The Sorrow Hand" was taken from GoodReads at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40963058-the-sorrow-hand on 30/10/2023.
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My Thoughts:
Reading the titles of the books in this series, it seems that the author has a thing about body parts.
I'm not a historical fan. So I wished that the story's setting could have been several decades later.
I thought that this book is kinda supernatural because of the black bird, but it is not. It is crime fiction.
I kind of able to identify with the hero. He is not perfect. Damaged. But trying his best to live in an imperfect world. Dang! But I could identify with that!!
I don't have PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) but I hear it has devastating consequences. I listened to veteran interviews and I heard some say that it is the moral injury that is a whole lot difficult to battle than the actual war that they had been through.
The plot is not twisty like a hurricane, but I did not see it coming either.
Steve Marvel reads with a cadence that is earily like a singsong. I am not fond of singsongs. However, I stop hearing it as I get absorbed into the story.
Quantitative Evaluation:
Story telling quality = 4
Character development = 5
Story itself = 4
Writing Style = 4.5
Ending = 4.5
World building = 5
Cover art = 4
Pace = (7 hrs and 3 mins listening time)
Plot = 4
Narration = 4.5
Character development = 5
Story itself = 4
Writing Style = 4.5
Ending = 4.5
World building = 5
Cover art = 4
Pace = (7 hrs and 3 mins listening time)
Plot = 4
Narration = 4.5
Books In The Nick Drake Series:
Meet The Author
About Dwight Holing:
Dwight Holing lives and writes in California. His genre-spanning work includes novels, short fiction, and nonfiction. His mystery and suspense thriller series include The Nick Drake Novels and The Jack McCoul Capers. The stories in his collections of literary short fiction have won awards, including the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction. He has written and edited numerous nonfiction books on nature travel and conservation. He is married to a kick-ass environmental advocate; they have a daughter and son, and two dogs who’d rather swim than walk.
The Narrator
About Steve Marvel:
ACTOR. NARRATOR. WISEASS.
Multiple Voice Arts Award nominee Steve Marvel is one of only four narrators to be chosen a winner of the ACX Audiobook Narration Contest by Audible's Mike Charzuk. Steve received his classical theater training at Northwestern University and continues to work in theater, film, and television. The former voice of financial writer John Mauldin's Thoughts from the Frontline weekly newsletter, Steve's voice-over work also includes video games for the likes of Mattel, Sony, and Activision, and regular stints in eLearning. Steve applies his performance skills and mastery of accents to craft unique, distinctive characters for his fiction titles.
FTC Disclosure:
The ebook and audiobook were bought with private funds.
No money received for this review.
The ebook and audiobook were bought with private funds.
No money received for this review.
