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Publisher: Random House Audio. Genre: Fiction - Literary. His first novel, the international phenomenon The Horse Whisperer, became a publishing legend, setting a benchmark for contemporary bestsellers when it hit 1 on the New York Times list faster than any first novel in history. He returned to enthrall his fans all across the world with his second triumph, The Loop, proving that here was a master storyteller of enduring power and appeal. Internet Archive's 25th Anniversary Logo. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass.

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The smokejumper program operates through both the U. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. The reader becomes a student enrolled in a summer training program as a smoke jumper in the Pacific Northwest, an area hit hard by a number of small, suspicious forest fires.

Introduces the gear required to perform the dangerous job and examines how the position has changed over time. When a wildfire breaks out in a remote area of the wilderness, smoke jumpers are called to action. In this story, the smoke jumpers need a small tractor that can be parachuted from an airplane to help them. Terry is just the right sized tractor for the job. Terry learns that fighting forest fires is the hardest work he has ever done. Evans did an amazing job and I want to thank him for writing this book!

Apr 02, Ronnie rated it it was ok. I loved the first half of this book. The second half of the book, while connected, should have been a totally separate book by it's self. Probably the one novel I've read more than 3 times. Love, adventure, humour, war, heartache, politics This book ticks ALL the boxes and more.

May 21, Adam Nelson rated it it was amazing. Diana had read The Horse Whisperer and bought Nicholas Evans' succeeding two books on a bookstore excursion that feels like eons ago. Remembering how much she had sung the praises of The Horse Whisperer, I gave Evans' third a go--and was not disappointed in the slightest. I'm currently working through authors on my shelf from Z backwards having just completed a circuit in the other direction and then reversing it to make my way back to the Es. I try to be highly selective with what I read at a Diana had read The Horse Whisperer and bought Nicholas Evans' succeeding two books on a bookstore excursion that feels like eons ago.

I try to be highly selective with what I read at a given point. I don't reach for the hard stuff unless I feel up to it. Having just tackled an page book, I wasn't sure what I was thinking in reaching for a page book, but it's not the length, after all, that I should be considering anyway but rather the breadth of the thing.

Diana's a Jane Austen fan. I read Persuasion and hated it, couldn't stick with it at all, and thus my reservations about this one would be that I'd find Evans similarly impenetrable and over my head. Austen and her ilk make me feel like an idiot. Evans, however, couldn't have been more different. I know, of course, there is no basis for comparison between Victorian literature and modern fiction, but I thought perhaps there would be crossover elements uniquely tailored to Diana and her book club's tastes, and I don't like books that require me to diagram a sentence in order to enjoy them.

Evans doesn't. Yes, his fiction is rich and textured, but God bless him, he's an everyman with a soul. I haven't read The Horse Whisperer, but Redford must have got it right because the heroism and stalwartness of his male characters and the hardy steel of his females are on display just as much here as in the film. This is romance in a pure sense. Mild spoilers may await, so beware. He layers his characters with integrity and heart, even in their weakest moments, such as the periods of self-pity experienced by Ed after his fall, and especially as Julia and Connor battle the urge within to requite their forbidden love.

The greatest suspense often comes from whether or not characters are going to do the right thing, and what lifts Evans' romance above the pornographic swill commonly categorized as such is that they often do, although there are prices to pay and sacrifices to make that may cost them their lives. As a Christian, I can see these people being called to account for their actions and being commended for them.

THAT is romantic to me. Yes, the gratification comes, and boy is it ever delayed! But it's delayed for all the right reasons, and by the time you reach it, you're so swept up in the mixture of tragedy and suspense it's taken to get there that Evans can pretty much do whatever he wants with you. His book is obviously well-researched in the matters of smoke jumping, mountain fires, parachutes, photojournalism, and recent African history and political, but he doesn't show it off, like going into some tangential chapter to explain what all this stuff is.

It's inter-woven as needed in the story but it never subverts it so that never once do we lose track of the characters we have almost immediately fallen in love with. There's a bit of Ed, Connor, and Julia in all of us at different points in our lives, and our hearts bleed and break for them.

I'd venture to say there's a bit of Skye in us, too, and the way the book finds redemption for her and Julia's experience with her will no doubt bring tears to your eyes. Read this and then share it with the one you love. Make him or her read it, too, something I plan on doing with Diana.

And then hit the hay and thank God you've made it safely together. One more thing: There are two sex scenes in this book, and the first one almost ruined my perfect score, but the second one purposely redeems it.

I don't like sex scenes were people are just throwing the f-word at each other, not because I'm a prude but because it is seriously unromantic.

Well, it was intended to be a little off-putting, and I commend Evans for having the confidence in himself to make it right by the end. Started out really well, but then very quickly took a dip into the cliche and everything for some reason had to be over the top meaningful and emotional, in the worst way possible. The characters in this book makes choices that does not fit who they are, and as a reader they are hard to care for at all.

The story goes crazy and unbelievable, and tries to justify things that are basically twisted and sick. Further down you can read just exactly why I think this, if you don't mind spoilers.

Then there is a big fire where Ed gets blinded while doing his job and a young girl gets killed. Julia somehow manages to blame all of this on herself even though none of it was her doing and she therefore marries Ed out of guilt. She builds an entire life and marriage around feeling guilty for loving her husbands best friend more than him. And then, sick and twisted as it is, when Ed turns out to be sterile, she has a baby with Connor, to even further her bond with him Oh and despite her already basically cheating on Ed with her every waking thought of Connor, we conveniently avoid any actual cheating because Ed dies at a super young age And the cause of death does even get explained, he just dies, how convenient.

Then Julia, as the super great responsible mom she is, take her and Connors daughter with her to Afrika, straight into a war zone, just because Connor was there once, many years ago, just hoping he will return so she can finally get some man meat after years of stupidly avoiding her feelings. And when the war then moves right up to her front door, does she leave to protect her daughter? Mother of the freaking year. No she leaves at the very last minute, in a very very dangerous situation that could have gotten them both killed.

Oh oh and get this, then Connor Big hero he is jumps out of a chopper straight into the war zone to save them, and he does and oh how amazing it is. Then with the daughters blessing the two "star crossed lovers" finally work out the years of sexual frustration and lust, whoopti freaking doo Sep 23, Kimberly rated it it was ok. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.

To view it, click here. Ed falls in love with Julia, a woman who works as a rehab counselor for troubled youth. She takes kids out hiking and asks them questions like "How does that make you feel? Julia marries him, even though she is secretly in love with Ed's best friend, Connor.

We learn that Ed is sterile, so he and Julia ask Connor to be a sperm donor so that they can have a child. Julia eventually gives birth to a daughter, and heads off to war-torn Uganda so that she'll feel closer to the now-absent Connor since he once took a series of photographs there.

A cute romance develops between two likable characters and then a smokin hot "complication" gets introduced. From there it went all downhill. I wanted something to happen to make the husband less likable, or I wanted him to leave and find a woman who could really love him back the way he deserved. Is that supposed to be a happy ending?

I agree Christina!!! Couldn't of said it any better. Jan 23, Kathy rated it really liked it Shelves: favorite-authors. Can a person love two people at the same time, and how does one choose just one? Julia meets Ed first and is in relationship with him when she meets his best friend Connor and has a "love at first sight" experience. Connor reciprocates this feeling, but both he and Julia manage not to pursue a love that would hurt Ed.

The summer of life-altering events finds the three in Montana where Ed and Connor are smoke jumpers, something that they've been doing for several years together. Julia is working Can a person love two people at the same time, and how does one choose just one? Julia is working with troubled teens in a outdoors outreach program.

A devastating fire forces choices that seem to doom any satisfaction of feelings for Julia and Connor. Connor finds a life for himself courting danger on a daily basis. Publication date Topics Triangles Interpersonal relations , Forest fire fighters , Wilderness areas , Male friendship , Smokejumpers Publisher New York : Delacorte Press Collection inlibrary ; printdisabled ; internetarchivebooks ; delawarecountydistrictlibrary ; china ; americana Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive Contributor Internet Archive Language English.

A woman must choose between two men, best friends, who both love her, in a story of love, loyalty, honor, and guilt set against the perilous backdrop of wilderness firefighting. There are no reviews yet.

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