He is a scary man and is feared by all who he encounters. Legs he uses to hide the oil he needs to start his fires. Smoke has his nickname for the obvious reason that he likes to burn things, he is also crippled and walks on fakes legs. Then there is Smoke, hired by Dwight to catch James Moxie on the trial and prevent him from saving Carol's life. Moxie is, in a way, also wrestling his own demons as he makes his way along the trail in hopes of rescuing Carol. Moxie is also haunted by Rot who does not want Moxie to arrive to save Carol. 'A hero is always recognizable to those who adore him.'Īlong the way, the reader learns about Moxie's past and his feat of 'magic' during a dual. Along the way, James encounters those who idolized him and want to help such as Rinaldo and Moxie's former partner, Jefferson. He has tremendous guilt over leaving her upon learning her secret and wants to set things right. James takes to the infamous and dangerous 'Trail' in hopes of arriving in time to save Carol. No one knows how he pulled this off and for this reason he is feared.ĭwight has a right to be afraid because James Moxie has received word of Carol's 'death' and he has sent a telegram stating that she is 'not dead'. Moxie is famous for killing a man in a duel without even pulling the trigger. But being devious makes a man paranoid, so he hires another man, by the name of Smoke to kill the only other person who knows about Carol's condition - her former boyfriend, the famous outlaw, James Moxie.

He plans to bury her alive and feels no one in town will be the wiser. He has married Carol for her money and now that she appears to be dead, he decides to Cash in. After the funeral of her close friend, she slips into one of her comas, and her devious husband, Dwight, decides to make his move. While in her comas she literally falls into a place she has named Howltown. She appears to be dead but has a slight very hard to feel pulse. Having said that, this book started slow for me then my interest grew and I was intrigued.Ĭarol Evers has a secret that very few know - she slips into coma's. It's unique and as I stated it feels like a mash up of the various interests of the Author. I was hoping that this book would be in the same vain - it's not. I requested this book because I LOVED Bird Box. I am not a fan of westerns, True Grit and a couple of others are the exception to this. Some of the characters are almost cartoonish such as Smoke - and I do mean that in a good way. Unbury Carol is sort of a mash up between a spaghetti western, the Brother's Grimm's Sleeping Beauty and do I dare say it, a Quentin Tarantino movie? I could seriously see Tarantino doing a movie with this book. 'I'm a thing old enough to know that old was once young and that because young becomes old there is not love of life, only a fear of decay.'

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