Light The Hidden Things edition by Don McQuinn Literature Fiction eBooks
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Fans of Debbie Macomber and Danielle Steel, fall in love with the story of a retired Marine struggling with PTSD and the woman determined to help him. Written by the award winning author, Don McQuinn.
Carter Crow has been wandering the country for years, fleeing the terrors of PTSD and a lost love that haunts his dreams. When he rolls into the quiet mountain town of Lupine he's looking for good fishing, a decent meal and a place to park his Airstream for the night.
Lila Milam has been struggling to resurrect the Bait shop her Aunt and Uncle left her when they died. When a truck pulls into her yard carrying a stranger and his overly large dog, she knows he is trouble, and probably the kind she doesn't need.
While the terrain is vast, mountain towns are small and they find each other along the way. Crow feels unworthy and unforgiven, burdened by red dreams, flashbacks and a pain he can't share. Lila wants to help him, but she doesn't know how, and soon it seems that his troubles will smother whatever flame they may have found.
Can Crow accept the love offered to him? Or will he finally let his grief engulf him?
Don McQuinn examines the difficult subject of post-traumatic stress disorder with the skill of a great writer and the depth of understanding of a retired US Marine. Read “Light The Hidden Things” today.
Light The Hidden Things edition by Don McQuinn Literature Fiction eBooks
This is not the "usual" McQuinn book. The books I've read by him have been space operas and adventures. They've had their share of adrenaline. This book is gentle, and touches on a difficult subject, PTSD. While it doesn't get into the clinical aspects of PTSD, it does show what someone living with it goes through; how it affects them and those around them. I think this book is a marvelous book for anyone who is either living with PTSD, or knows and loves someone who is.The primary protagonist, Crow, suffers from PTSD. He's a war vet who has seen more than any human needs to see of death. Fortunately, we don't have to relive a lot of what he does. Crow—a loner, and his dog Major, come to a small town in the Washington Cascades, not too far from Seattle. Here, Crow meets people who help him face his demons to get them off his back.
Dare I make a generalization here? Dare I say Crow is like many men who have PTSD in that he knows he's broke, but he'll fix it himself? He doesn't need help. He's a Marine.
There is no "ah-ha" moment when Crow realizes he needs others; there is no "ah-ha" moment when he is suddenly "fixed." We travel with him as he comes to the realization he really does not want to be a loner any more, he wants companionship, and he wants friends to stand by him and help him.
The chapters of this book are written in the point of view of whoever is narrating that chapter. Most are written by either Lila, who has her own demons or by Crow. Some people find this type of writing irritating, I for one love it.
I would have liked to know just a little more about how Crow's wife died, and a little more about Joe, their son. Crow spent a lot of time thinking about them, to have their stories not tied up in a neat ribbon at the end. (Yes, I like happily ever after in my fiction.)
McQuinn has a tremendous vocabulary, and he uses it to full advantage. I've seldom read a book with such delightful turns of phrase as this one.
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Light The Hidden Things edition by Don McQuinn Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I thought this book was really good. It did take me a couple of chapters to really get into it, but once I did, it definitely held my attention. I loved the characters in this small town and the fact that they truly loved and cared for one another. This is something that has truly been lost in our modern-day, hectic, fast-paced society. Makes me wish sometimes that I lived in a small, laid-back town like Lupine. Crow's a tortured, complicated ex-military man who can't forgive himself for some things that happened in his past, can't get the horrors of war out of his head, and blames himself for the death of his wife. He stumbles onto a little town where the people's lives center around a church, a diner, and a friendly protectiveness of each other. He wants none of it. But, the love of a good woman can do miracles for a broken man, and this is what he finds with Lila, a woman who has had her own share of troubles and heart-ache, but has not allowed them to dominate her life and kill her dreams and hope of finding love in her future. He strikes up a friendship with her and is attracted to her, but fights off any feelings that are beginning to stir in himself for her. He's afraid of loving again. She thinks she can help him.
I really fell in love with Crow, despite his problems, and really believe that although Lila's love will not cure him of his troubles with PTSD, with her by his side, he can live a happily-ever-after life with her. It had a feel-good ending and I love that the author didn't leave me hanging, waiting on a follow-up book. The witty dialogue between the characters made me laugh and the sadness of Crow's constant battle within himself and indescribable bond with his dog, Major, made me cry. I know his kind of troubles & PTSD are a real problem for many people, especially our ex-military men and women. My heart goes out to them and I'm so grateful to each and every one of them who jeopardize their lives for the sake of freedom. Not many books have brought out both of these emotions in me.
While this book is not completely bad, it is absolutely nothing like what I expected. In fact, in these terms it was actually pretty disappointing, but maybe it was the fact that I knew what I wanted to read that ended up making this book seem rather dull. As it happens, the book does not focus on the recovery process of a soldier who has been psychologically wounded by war. In fact, the book, doesn't even focus on a single character. And while I'm not opposite to several characters in a romance, the fact that most of the are not exactly relevant for the story makes it seem very slow-paced and, in some moments, even boring. Characters that had the potential to be relevant to the story end up as some sort of background/supportive characters, specially Vanderkirk, who only seemed to be in the book because it needed a contemporaneous villain to serve as an obstacle for the main couple (as if they didn't have enough problems to face).
The main character, Crow Carter, had everything to be an interesting one and ended up being under-developed. He had PTSD, but sometimes you forget this because his romantic interest, Lila, drowns his story with her seemingly irrelevant problems. Okay, maybe "irrelevant" is too strong to define her problems, but comparing her dreams of building a memorial for her deceased relatives just for the sake of the whole things doesn't really seem to be more important than a guy who has served in the army and is haunted by the memories he gathered in combat.
I'm not the biggest fan of how Lila was developed. I'm not into stereotypes of fragile, obstinate girls who are actually able to solve every single problem using the power of love. Wait, did I say obstinate? For most part of the book, she doesn't really know what she wants to do with her life. She hesitates and her resolve wavers at every single difficulty she finds and has several mood shifts, which becomes annoying after a while.
This book is not horrid. In spite of the usual grammar errors that seem to be a constant problem for eBooks, it is actually deep and poetic in a way. But a sappy romance with lots of angst and a silly ending is definitely not what I wanted to read.
This is not the "usual" McQuinn book. The books I've read by him have been space operas and adventures. They've had their share of adrenaline. This book is gentle, and touches on a difficult subject, PTSD. While it doesn't get into the clinical aspects of PTSD, it does show what someone living with it goes through; how it affects them and those around them. I think this book is a marvelous book for anyone who is either living with PTSD, or knows and loves someone who is.
The primary protagonist, Crow, suffers from PTSD. He's a war vet who has seen more than any human needs to see of death. Fortunately, we don't have to relive a lot of what he does. Crow—a loner, and his dog Major, come to a small town in the Washington Cascades, not too far from Seattle. Here, Crow meets people who help him face his demons to get them off his back.
Dare I make a generalization here? Dare I say Crow is like many men who have PTSD in that he knows he's broke, but he'll fix it himself? He doesn't need help. He's a Marine.
There is no "ah-ha" moment when Crow realizes he needs others; there is no "ah-ha" moment when he is suddenly "fixed." We travel with him as he comes to the realization he really does not want to be a loner any more, he wants companionship, and he wants friends to stand by him and help him.
The chapters of this book are written in the point of view of whoever is narrating that chapter. Most are written by either Lila, who has her own demons or by Crow. Some people find this type of writing irritating, I for one love it.
I would have liked to know just a little more about how Crow's wife died, and a little more about Joe, their son. Crow spent a lot of time thinking about them, to have their stories not tied up in a neat ribbon at the end. (Yes, I like happily ever after in my fiction.)
McQuinn has a tremendous vocabulary, and he uses it to full advantage. I've seldom read a book with such delightful turns of phrase as this one.
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