Book: ‘Cunning of the Mountain Man’ by William W. Johnstone – June 28th, 2017
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jun.28, 2017, under Books
Cunning of the Mountain Man by William W. Johnstone
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This Mountain Man entry is the 20th of the series I’ve read and one of the best of the series and most of the Johnstone Clan books. It’s treading over much traveled plots by the Johnstone Clan. This one does the trek considerably better than the rest.
The characters are of typical thorough Johnstone quality. Better still is the narrative and the well illustrated settings. The narrative is cleverly written with language many notches above what is typically found in a Johnstone book.
Though the plot has been written many times in a Johnstone book, this one adds quite a number of extra elements better fleshing out everything a typical Johnstone book does not. The ending is too much typical of western novels. There are the continued consistency problems involving Smoke’s family that bug me more than those should. Couldn’t someone keep a flow chart of Smoke’s tiny family to pass among the writers?
Bottom line I recommend this book: 8 out of ten points.
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