Fallen Land

Fallen Land is Taylor Brown s debut novel set in the final year of the Civil War, as a young couple on horseback flees a dangerous band of marauders who seek a bounty reward Callum, a seasoned horse thief at fifteen years old, came to America from his native Ireland as an orphan Ava, her father and brother lost to the war, hides in her crumbling home until Callum determines to rescue her from the bands of hungry soldiers pillaging the land, leaving destruction in their wake Ava and Callum have only each other in the world and their remarkable horse, Reiver, who carries them through the destruction that is the South Pursued relentlessly by a murderous slave hunter, tracking dogs, and ruthless ex partisan rangers, the couple race through a beautiful but ruined land, surviving on food they glean from abandoned farms and the occasional kindness of strangers In the end, as they intersect with the scorching destruction of Sherman s March, the couple seek a safe haven where they can make a home and begin to rebuild their lives Dramatic and thrillingly written with an uncanny eye for glimpses of beauty in a ravaged landscape, Fallen Land is a love story at its core, and an unusually assured first novel by award winning young author Taylor Brown. New Download eBook Fallen Land Author Taylor Brown – kino-fada.fr this book takes place at the very end of the civil war , where disorganized and factionless gangs of opportunistic men took advantage of the confusion and lawlessness of war s aftermath to settle scores and take for themselves whatever hadn t already been destroyed which is the kind of story i really dig i love cormac mccarthy, i loved The Winter Family, i love stories about individuals pared down to the barest essentials, as free from morality or politeness as animals, surviving in a world u this book takes place at the very end of the civil war , where disorganized and factionless gangs of opportunistic men took advantage of the confusion and lawlessness of war s aftermath to settle scores and take for themselves whatever hadn t already been destroyed which is the kind of story i really dig i love cormac mccarthy, i loved The Winter Family, i love stories about individuals pared down to the barest essentials, as free from morality or politeness as animals, surviving in a world unimpressed by man s progress so i was a little apprehensive at the start of this novel, when the fifteen year old protagonist callum prevents the rape of a seventeen year old girl by one of his fellow marauders, killing him and losin...I feel like it took forever to finish this book It s completely written in beautiful language but I felt like that very language just tried too hard I think Cold Mountain and some of Cormac McCarthy books are written in that same style so it may be that these types of books just aren t my genre I m including several passages from the book in this review to give an idea of the way it is written I m sure it will sell thousands and millions of copies because it completely bored me.This...Sometimes for me it s all about the writing From the first sentence the precise language and the perfect descriptions defy you to see anything other than what Taylor Brown hopes for you to see I read the first page three times and then reread some other paragraphs just because I decided to read this slowly to savor it It continued to be the writing that drew me in but then it also became this unbelievably gripping story about these characters that I fell in love with Towards the end I co Sometimes for me it s all about the writing From the first sentence the precise language and the perfect descriptions defy you to see anything other than what Taylor Brown hopes for you to see I read the first page three times and then reread some other paragraphs just because I decided to read this slowly to savor it It continued to be the writing that drew me in but then it also became this unbelievably gripping story about these characters that I fell in love with Towards the end I couldn t read fast enough even though I still wanted to savor it I just had to know Callum and Ava at 15 and 17 are orphans , children, who are pushed over the edge to adulthood by loss , by war, by murder, by hunger, by the times in which they live towards the end of the Civil War They are brought together by the violent actions of unscrupulous m...Violence amidst great beauty Two amazing young characters, Callum and Ava, and a wonderful trusty horse named Reiver On the run from bounty hunters under the mistaken notion that Callum had killed their renegade Colonel Nearing the end of the Civil War, there is much destruction, woods full of starving men, men who kill and steal for food, there is danger behind and ahead of them From the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina they hope to make their way to the Georgian Coast, running into t Violence amidst great beauty Two amazing young characters, Callum and Ava, and a wonderful trusty horse named Reiver On the run from bounty hunters under the mistaken notion that Callum had killed their renegade Colonel Nearing the end of the Civil War, there is much destruction, woods full of starving men, men who kill and steal for food, there is danger behind and ahead of them From...A brave young man15 , a savvy young girl17 , and a stately, fearless horseReiverare on the run from a deadly, persevering one armed man and his band of murderous cutthroats With a price on his head during a time of upheaval as the Civil War nears its end, Callum and Eva trudge forward in hopes of reachi...I struggled with the style of writing I wasin aw about how some sentences were written even how they sounded than I was naturally able to feel the depth of emotion from the pretty sentences I admired I also needed a dictionary for which my paperwhite Kindle was a blessing as some words were horse terms , that I wasn t familiar with The story itself was easy to follow, but often the lyrical descriptions seemed to clash i...Set in the last year of the Civil War, Taylor Brown s Fallen Land begins with Callum As the story unfolds, Callum is sent out with orders from the Colonel to their troop of horse thieves to find food for their men While searching the closest home, he comes upon a young girl, Ava, and attempts to save her fro...What a book What a story Ava and Callum, what a couple they turned out to be Two kids on the run from bounty hunters during the last year of the Civil War Enduring starvation, violence, freezing cold, and fear, never able to relax, but learning to love and protect each other.This was a difficult book to read, not just because...I received a copy of Fallen Land through Goodreads and St Martin s Press I wish to thank them for the opportunity.Fallen Land is in the vein of Cold Mountain To parallel a debut book with the likes of that stellar novel is quite the achievement for Taylor Brown Fallen Land focuses on the devastation, the tragedies, the brutalities during the Civil War Brown s writing brings the severely destructive human losses to the forefront And his words take you there No colors among the trees No ba I received a copy of Fallen Land through Goodreads and St Martin s Press I wish to thank them for the opportunity.Fallen Land is in the vein of Cold Mountain To parallel a debut book with the likes of that stellar novel is quite the achievement for Taylor Brown Fallen Land focuses on the devastation, the tragedies, the brutalities during the Civil War Brown s writing brings the severely destructive human losses to the forefront And his words take you there No colors among the trees No badges, no uniforms He wanted to ask what peace might be gained if they hovered here longer in the mist, did not mount and ride But they always did And the losses took an unforgiveable toll on the young Callum, a fifteen year old with nary a whisker, has arrived from Ireland He finds himself in the South and with an uncanny talent for stealing horses Thi...They had long ago forsaken the war of newspapers for the one they carried everywhere with them, and which had no colors, no sides, and which could be fit neatly to any new opportunity that presented itself ambush, pillage, torture Fallen Land, Taylor BrownTaking place at the end of the Civil War, Taylor Brown s debut novel, Fallen Land, follows the story of Callum and Ava as they race across the South toward the home of Callum s distant relatives while being pursued by a band of nefariousThey had long ago forsaken the war of newspapers for the one they carried everywhere with them, and which had no colors, no sides, and which could be fit neatly to any new opportunity that presented itself ambush, pillage, torture Fallen Land, Taylor BrownTaking place at the end of the Civil War, Taylor Brown s debut novel, Fallen Land, follows the story of Callum and Ava as they race across the South toward the home of Callum s distant relatives while being pursued by a band of nefarious men intent on punishing Callum for a crim...

• English
• 07 July 2017
Taylor Brown
• Hardcover
• 288 pages
• 1250077974
• Taylor Brown
• Fallen Land