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Reavis Z. Wortham

Autor(a) de The Rock Hole

18 Works 293 Membros 24 Reviews 1 Favorited

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Image credit: Author Reavis Z. Wortham at the 2018 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74198489

Séries

Obras de Reavis Z. Wortham

The Rock Hole (2011) 100 cópias
Hawke's Prey (2017) 33 cópias
Burrows (2012) 31 cópias
The Right Side of Wrong (2013) 20 cópias
Dark Places (2015) 14 cópias
Vengeance is Mine (2014) 13 cópias
Gold Dust (2018) 11 cópias
Unraveled (2016) 11 cópias
The Texas Job (2022) 11 cópias
Hawke's War (2018) 8 cópias
Hawke's Fury (2020) 8 cópias
Hawke's Target (2019) 8 cópias
Hard Country: A Thriller (2023) 7 cópias
Hard Country: A Thriller (2023) 1 exemplar(es)
The Texas Job (2022) 1 exemplar(es)

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Sexo
male
Pequena biografia
[from The Rock Hole]
As a boy, award-winning writer Reavis Z. Wortham hunted and fished the river bottoms near Chicota, Texas, the inspiration for The Rock Hole. Wortham is humor editor and frequent contributor to Texas Fish and Game Magazine and author of Doreen's 24 HR Eat Gas Now Café, a collection of short stories. His work has also appeared in American Cowboy and Texas Sporting Journal. A retired educator of 35 years, he and wife live in Texas. The Rock Hole is his first novel.

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Hard Country by Reavis Z. Wortham
Tucker Snow #1

Small town life should be calm, serene, and easy…right? Not so much for Tucker and his daughter Chloe when they moved to Ganther Bluff and found themselves across the road from drug dealers that didn’t play nice. Great introduction to a new series!

What I liked:
* Tucker: widow, father to a teenage daughter, grieving, lost his wife and younger daughter to meth addled driver, trying to health while keeping his daughter safe
* Chloe: sixteen, not happy to have moved to the country, misses her mother and sister, grieving, goodhearted, kind, caring, strong – has a good future
* Harley: Tucker’s younger brother and partner for years undercover, married, has to young sons, a bit higher strung than Tucker, loves his family and brother, in synch with Tucker when working
* Tammy: Harley’s wife and aunt to Chloe, there for her family, strong and resilient
* The plot, pacing, setting, and writing
* The way Tucker and Harley worked together
* That I knew who the bad guys were and was rooting for them to be dealt with
* The way family and community played a part – both good and bad families
* That there is another book to look forward to

What I didn’t like:
* Who and what I was meant not to like
* Knowing that there are evil people like the ones in this book and that they harm so many by doing what they do

Did I enjoy this book? Yes
Would I read more in this series? Yes

Thank you to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for the ARC – This is my honest review.

5 Stars
… (mais)
 
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CathyGeha | 1 outra resenha | Oct 28, 2023 |
Well, I thought it was good. Don't quite understand the harshly negative reviews I've seen. The Snow brothers are a bit archetypal but as far as I am concerned, that's fun. We don't always need Cormac McCarthy.

I received a review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.com.
 
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Dokfintong | 1 outra resenha | Jul 31, 2023 |
The Texas Job by Reavis Z. Wortham

Set during the depression, this book has the feel of a dime novel or perhaps pulp fiction. It feels “of the time” and the time of the story is early 1930’s. Set in a booming oil town during the heyday of a new era filled with men wishing to rake in the money…oil towns seemed to have the same feel as old gold towns.

Tom Bell, Texas Ranger, is on horseback chasing a criminal when he meets eleven-year-old Booker Johnston who takes him to a female corpse. Tom and Booker become friends of sorts over the course of the book as Tom realizes that something isn’t quite right in Pine Top. An era with horses and automobiles both on the roads, good people being pushed aside by those ruthless enough to take what they want, bigotry and racial discrimination rampant, social divides prevalent, prohibition and speakeasies the norm, mafia types on the move, corrupt cops getting away with…a lot, and murder aplenty – well, this story is action-packed, filled with colorful characters, dark, and gritty.

The Texas Rangers are doing their job but it isn’t always easy. Being a good person in Pine Top might not see you alive till the end of the book…and being a bad person might have the same ending for some of the book’s characters, too.

This is a novel that will appeal to those who enjoy vintage stories with bigger than life characters, a bit of feel-good here and there, good vs evil, and a bit different flavor ovreall. It was not exactly what I thought it would be but was great for what it was meant to be…or what I think it was meant to be. I do believe I would read another book by Wortham and am glad I read this new-to-me author’s work.

Thank you to NetGalley and Poison Pen Press for the ARC – this is my honest review.

4-5 Stars
… (mais)
½
 
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CathyGeha | 1 outra resenha | Feb 14, 2022 |
For anyone familiar with Reavis Wortham's Red River mystery series, the name Tom Bell will be a familiar (and welcome) one. Bell is an old man in the 1960s setting of the Red River mysteries, but The Texas Job shows him as a young man in 1931 with more than a touch of Wyatt Earp-like invincibility.

Wortham aptly describes the boomtown sensibility of Texas oil fields, of everyone out to make as much money as fast as they possibly can. And where there are boatloads of fast money, there are boatloads of outlaws, from petty criminals all the way up to the gangsters of organized crime. These are the days of Pretty Boy Floyd, of Ma Barker, John Dillinger, and Bonnie and Clyde. The Texas Job gives readers shootouts and ambushes and twisted, evil plots to grab control of the rights to all that oil and money. And if all that sounds a bit far-fetched, I'd suggest a little additional reading... David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon, for instance.

But if this sounds like too much action and not enough setting and characterization, think again. The opening scene of The Texas Job is beautiful and lyrical. Wortham paints such a vivid picture that I easily found myself on horseback riding along with Tom Bell. Yes, there is beauty to be found in this book, as well as love, kindness, greed, and ugliness.

And then there's Tom Bell. A man who has to think on his feet in order to stay alive. A man who doesn't see skin color, and as a result meets unforgettable eleven-year-old Booker Johnston, and Booker's friends and family. The bad guys in this book are the types you love to hate, and you want to see them come to bad ends, but it's Bell's interactions with the marginalized there in town that bring a smile to my face and make the story come to life.

If you're a fan of Wortham's Red River mysteries, you already know you have a treat in store for you in The Texas Job. If you haven't made the acquaintance of Tom Bell, there's no time like the present. You're not only going to like him, you're going to want more.

(Review copy courtesy of the publisher and Net Galley)
… (mais)
½
 
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cathyskye | Feb 10, 2022 |

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Obras
18
Membros
293
Popularidade
#79,900
Avaliação
4.0
Resenhas
24
ISBNs
86
Favorito
1

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