I’m normally not one to read westerns. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I have found some western stories to be great reads, it’s just not my enjoyable genre of choice. So why did I pick this one up? First, it mentions the Anasazi. Since my Scouting days, I’ve had a bit of interest in the Native Americans and their beliefs. The Anasazi are a mystery similar to Roanoke. It’s a real mystery and I’m a writer, it’s natural I’d find it intriguing. Just the fact that the book has a major focus on the Anasazi disappearance was enough to get me to pick it up. As I read it, things got even more interesting because it was obviously touching on the quantum realm. With my other interest of paranormal and supernatural (as shown in the Oddish Questor series), this became more exciting. Was the great western writer going to write a story about other worlds? Maybe touch a bit on Asimov genre territory? Well, he does, but not quite enough. This is a long book. The hardback probably was close to 600 pages. And this brings up my problem with this story. If you’ve not enjoyed Stephen King or J.R.R. […]

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