Customer Reviews

Coyote Summer

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The best book I've read all year, and i am an avid reader..The quality of the writing and research,along with the unforgettable characters makes this book impossible to put down..I enjoyed the prequel The Morning River, but this was even better..I think Richard, and Willow still have another story to tell....PLEASE//

W.Michael Gear has written a wonderful series of Morning River and Coyote Summer. I read River and couldn't wait for the sequel. Gear's character development is is a model for study. Humor abounds as well as deep concern for Richard and Willow which makes for excellent plot development All in all it is a fun, exciting, and well paced story of early west in full color and surround sound. Don't miss it.

As always, I love the historical content of Gear's books. This series had exceptional dialogue and really engaging characters. After reading "Morning Mist", I couldn't wait to get this sequel. I really enjoyed it, although the ending was a bit "Cinderella".

The depth of research Gear did is obvious in the wealth of Indian culture, tradition and practice. Gear takes Vine DeLoria's "God is Red" and puts flesh on the bones, and tells a story with riveting action and characters you care about. In addition to making his contrast of Christianity with Tribal Religion come to life, he also illustrates the Union of Polarities thesis.

The Bibliography at the back of the book is a reading list I will be looking closely at. The quotes from Socrates, Plato, Kant, Hobbes and Hegel, et. al., at the Chapter head give you a good intro into the chapter, and are worth reading as well

I don't know when a book has enthralled me more. I came away challenged to understand my surroundings and those folks around us. Historically Coyote Summer is with out peers. Please Micheal continue this story.

Having been raised in central Montana, I was waiting for historical or geographical innaccuracies. I found none. The writing was excellent and did an excellent job of portraying the relationships between the traders and the Native Americans. I felt it handled the issues of race and racism tactfully while at the same time hitting them head on. Highly reccommended.

I bought this for my father for Christmas and he absolutely loved the book. He has read the Jean Auel series several times over and loves it. He has read all of the "People of..." series by Michael and Kathleen and absolutely liked those.

Hands down he said this was perhaps the best book he has ever read in his 73 years. For as many times as he has read and loved the Jean Auel series that is saying a lot.

Yes, the writing could have been better crafted but the story was so engrossing and the character's hearts so bared. I wish i hadn't read this book yet so I could experience it again!

I enjoyed Morning River very much and looked forward to the sequel. Coyote Summer, however, is a much different book than I had expected. It is decidedly not an action/adventure novel but is, rather, a romance novel. The preoccupation of the writer is with the amorous relationship between Richard and Willow and how they will work things out. Great stretches of this novel are devoted to that topic -- with many of the issues carefully dissected over and over again. This is all right for a romance novel but I had hoped for an action/adventure novel. From my point of view, the entire material of Coyote Summer could have been squeezed into a few chapters at the end of Morning River.

Coyote Summer, and the preceding book, The Morning River, provide the reader with a seamless reading experience of realistic entertainment. If you like historical novels where the author has mixed historical facts with the plot of his story you will enjoy both these books. Coyote Summer starts where the Morning River ends, and completes this saga. Very believable and entertaining, and set in the period when our country was expanding westward, this story is well written and made me feel like the events as presented could have happened in reality. Reading The Morning River first increased the pleasure of this experience for me. Enjoy!