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Resurrection Pass
IT IS REAL . . .
Some call it a spirit, a demon. Others, an all-consuming force of nature. According to Cree legend, it goes by the name of Wendigo. For a hundred years it has been sleeping. Resting beneath the earth. Buried in a godless no-man's-land known as Resurrection Pass . . .
IT IS RISING . . .
Led by half-Cree guide Jake Trueblood, a clandestine team of exploratory miners enter a remote valley in the Canadian wilderness. Searching for veins of untapped rare earth elements, they begin drilling into the spongy soils of the forest--and uncover something unbelievably large, unspeakably grotesque, and inexplicably alive . . .
IT IS RAVENOUS.
Within seconds, all hell breaks loose. Giant grasping tendrils shoot out of the earth. Poisonous spores explode into the air. And the horrified miners become a living, screaming feast for the biggest, hungriest creature the world has ever seen. Jake Trueblood and a young ecologist named Rachel barely escape with their lives, only to confront the Okitchawa, a murderous group of local Cree infuriated by the presence of the mining team. But even if they can escape the Okitchawa, Jake and Rachel's ordeal is far from over. The nightmare is just beginning . . . to feed.
Some call it a spirit, a demon. Others, an all-consuming force of nature. According to Cree legend, it goes by the name of Wendigo. For a hundred years it has been sleeping. Resting beneath the earth. Buried in a godless no-man's-land known as Resurrection Pass . . .
IT IS RISING . . .
Led by half-Cree guide Jake Trueblood, a clandestine team of exploratory miners enter a remote valley in the Canadian wilderness. Searching for veins of untapped rare earth elements, they begin drilling into the spongy soils of the forest--and uncover something unbelievably large, unspeakably grotesque, and inexplicably alive . . .
IT IS RAVENOUS.
Within seconds, all hell breaks loose. Giant grasping tendrils shoot out of the earth. Poisonous spores explode into the air. And the horrified miners become a living, screaming feast for the biggest, hungriest creature the world has ever seen. Jake Trueblood and a young ecologist named Rachel barely escape with their lives, only to confront the Okitchawa, a murderous group of local Cree infuriated by the presence of the mining team. But even if they can escape the Okitchawa, Jake and Rachel's ordeal is far from over. The nightmare is just beginning . . . to feed.
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368 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published March 28, 2017
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July 17, 2017
I expected a cheap monster story but this book turned out to be surprisingly well written. Good narrative, good character development, and the story moves along smartly. The protagonist is a half-Native American Special Forces vet who's chronic Lyme disease tempers his romantic thoughts regarding the young female scientist. The monster is sufficiently ridiculous yet plausible enough (barely) to make a good adversary.
October 31, 2018
This book could have been a good bit shorter and would have been a lot better for it!!
So the basic premise is that some group go to Resurrection Pass looking for some kind of mineral, or something like that anyway. They wake up something and all hell breaks loose up there. Then there's some other people, a native American tribe I think, who needs to stop the first group. Now if I sound very vague about the plot, that's because I really am. I finished this a week or so ago and still can't figure out the whole plot! There were parts that were good, but they were too interspersed with parts that were rambling about things I couldn't follow! My attention kept drifting off during it and felt like it was a chore to listen to. There were chapters that were told from both groups, but it took a little bit to realise we had switched from one group to the next. I didn't connect to the plot at all!
There were quite a few characters but I didn't particularly like any of them. They all just kind of melded together and I really didn't care who lived or who died. There was no character development at all and if I can't connect with one single character then I know it's not a book I'll love.
The Wendigo... well it was definitely different! I'm still unsure how a wendigo can have tentacles!! Initially I thought it was a fungus thing, but then it mentions it's a Wendigo, and I'm still shaking my head wondering how it got to be a Wendigo but anyway...!! There wasn't an awful lot I liked about this book, and even the ending left me down, so I was quite disappointed!
There are way too many narrators to name, but each of them read this really well and captured the atmosphere perfectly. It's a Graphic Audio and boy do those sound effects make for an awesome read! It played out like a movie in my head and I loved it. Again, as with anything like this, the music sometimes made the dialogue hard to hear, but I still enjoyed the overall experience of all the effects.
So the basic premise is that some group go to Resurrection Pass looking for some kind of mineral, or something like that anyway. They wake up something and all hell breaks loose up there. Then there's some other people, a native American tribe I think, who needs to stop the first group. Now if I sound very vague about the plot, that's because I really am. I finished this a week or so ago and still can't figure out the whole plot! There were parts that were good, but they were too interspersed with parts that were rambling about things I couldn't follow! My attention kept drifting off during it and felt like it was a chore to listen to. There were chapters that were told from both groups, but it took a little bit to realise we had switched from one group to the next. I didn't connect to the plot at all!
There were quite a few characters but I didn't particularly like any of them. They all just kind of melded together and I really didn't care who lived or who died. There was no character development at all and if I can't connect with one single character then I know it's not a book I'll love.
The Wendigo... well it was definitely different! I'm still unsure how a wendigo can have tentacles!! Initially I thought it was a fungus thing, but then it mentions it's a Wendigo, and I'm still shaking my head wondering how it got to be a Wendigo but anyway...!! There wasn't an awful lot I liked about this book, and even the ending left me down, so I was quite disappointed!
There are way too many narrators to name, but each of them read this really well and captured the atmosphere perfectly. It's a Graphic Audio and boy do those sound effects make for an awesome read! It played out like a movie in my head and I loved it. Again, as with anything like this, the music sometimes made the dialogue hard to hear, but I still enjoyed the overall experience of all the effects.
December 18, 2018
If you like thriller / horror tales, this one is for you. I've given it 3 stars for the Ick factor. The story is pretty good.
I listened to the Graphic Audio http://www.graphicaudio.net production of this tale. It's pretty graphic. While it holds your attention, it wouldn't be my choice for a gloomy day.
Look for a review of the performance at AudioFile Magazine http://www.audiofilemagazine.com
I listened to the Graphic Audio http://www.graphicaudio.net production of this tale. It's pretty graphic. While it holds your attention, it wouldn't be my choice for a gloomy day.
Look for a review of the performance at AudioFile Magazine http://www.audiofilemagazine.com
September 19, 2018
I honestly thought that it could have been written better. I actually liked the first 100 pages but I got lost after that. I felt like I was almost reading two different books mashed up into one. It was definitely a different representation of the Wendigo than I have seen on shows and in other books I have read. I struggled to finish the book.
October 21, 2017
Oh I liked this one. I love monster stories with strong heroes and a solid plot and this one delivered.
This story would make a great movie to go see at an old fashioned drive-in (there is one near here where I live)
This story would make a great movie to go see at an old fashioned drive-in (there is one near here where I live)
June 16, 2019
WHAT A READ!!! Amazing tale
September 8, 2022
I did the graphic audio. I do a lot of audiobooks. This was horrible. Too much going on in the background. The story itself was eh.
February 8, 2025
My Review and Thoughts:
This is a creature feature style book. A mix of dark humanity and the reality of monster in the woods. What makes this book stand out is the dark human side of this story. Yes, there is a monster in the woods, but there are human monsters also inside this story that bring out a darker humanity worse than the creature in the woods. This is a complex story of characters and violence. A mother nature run amok. A darker story that lingers in your thoughts. From one page to other you never really know what is going to happen next. The story unfolds with many characters and situations all melding into a creature feature drama with a mixture of pure imaginative fiction.
Your main character is a half-Cree Indian named Jake Trueblood who has been hired as a guide to lead a team of miners in the darkened woods of the Canadian wilderness and most of all a place called Resurrection Pass. These minors are looking for a rare earth element. What they don’t realize is as the explore and drill into the dirt of the wilderness they start to uncover something very dark, large and most of all alive in all its monstrosity.
The minors are not ready for the darkness that awaits them. But that is just the half of the story. Soon you are given a life and death survival tale against angry locals. Jake Trueblood will find himself in one battle he never saw coming. From the monsters and creatures that await a feeding reality to the angry humans with evil intentions, Jack Trueblood will have his hands full.
Kurt writes in a vivid, intense way that leaves nothing to the imagination. He allows you the reader to become a fly, a weed all watching the darkness unfold. Kurt truly knows how to grab you and create an intense dramatic, emotional ordeal on page. Really enjoyed the tension at times. Really enjoyed the monstrous descriptions. Kurt also creates some very shocking moments of violence that are unexpected. He creates this group of Okitchawa who are a murdering Cree group angry with persons destroying there land. As I have stated above, the human monsters are worse than the creature lurking. I think the dynamic between monster and human monster play off in this tale in a lasting reaction inside you that truly impresses the reader, at least it did this reader.
Kurt knows how to hold you tightly into the tale being told. Vivid descriptions mixed with awesome character development. Really loved the fleshed-out persons inside the unfolding plot. 40 pages in I was thoroughly hooked and I knew that this was going to be one of those books that held me tight and never let good, and all I can say is this is a great book of human monstrosity right along with unknown monsters lurking in the darkness of the world.
What I love about reading the biography of Kurt Anderson is he happens to be an environmental scientist. Loves hunting, fishing, and loves the wilderness, and those loves are clearly written in these pages. You can tell the writer is a lover of the outdoors. He places you there in the woods, the hunt, the showdown. Kurt knows how to take the landscape and take the reader and place them into that landscape.
The brutal reality of description is what makes this tale a flawless reading. Anderson knows how to write detail. A graphic intense detail that thoroughly never lets up. I loved the description power of Anderson’s writing.
As the back of the book says: It is Real….It is Rising…It is Ravenous, truly a perfect description of this book. A fun, wild, intense ride of imaginative perfection.
Would I Return to it Again? I will return to the author. He has a wonderful sense of pure storytelling that makes a lasting impression that makes the reader remember the story long after it’s over and that is what I love about good writers.
Would I Recommend: Anyone who loves a mother nature or creature feature in the middle of the woods style story, absolutely. Fans of monsters and human monsters will take to this book and make it their own.
My Rating: 4 out of 5
Four Final Words: Darkly, Masterly, Emotionally Intense.
This is a creature feature style book. A mix of dark humanity and the reality of monster in the woods. What makes this book stand out is the dark human side of this story. Yes, there is a monster in the woods, but there are human monsters also inside this story that bring out a darker humanity worse than the creature in the woods. This is a complex story of characters and violence. A mother nature run amok. A darker story that lingers in your thoughts. From one page to other you never really know what is going to happen next. The story unfolds with many characters and situations all melding into a creature feature drama with a mixture of pure imaginative fiction.
Your main character is a half-Cree Indian named Jake Trueblood who has been hired as a guide to lead a team of miners in the darkened woods of the Canadian wilderness and most of all a place called Resurrection Pass. These minors are looking for a rare earth element. What they don’t realize is as the explore and drill into the dirt of the wilderness they start to uncover something very dark, large and most of all alive in all its monstrosity.
The minors are not ready for the darkness that awaits them. But that is just the half of the story. Soon you are given a life and death survival tale against angry locals. Jake Trueblood will find himself in one battle he never saw coming. From the monsters and creatures that await a feeding reality to the angry humans with evil intentions, Jack Trueblood will have his hands full.
Kurt writes in a vivid, intense way that leaves nothing to the imagination. He allows you the reader to become a fly, a weed all watching the darkness unfold. Kurt truly knows how to grab you and create an intense dramatic, emotional ordeal on page. Really enjoyed the tension at times. Really enjoyed the monstrous descriptions. Kurt also creates some very shocking moments of violence that are unexpected. He creates this group of Okitchawa who are a murdering Cree group angry with persons destroying there land. As I have stated above, the human monsters are worse than the creature lurking. I think the dynamic between monster and human monster play off in this tale in a lasting reaction inside you that truly impresses the reader, at least it did this reader.
Kurt knows how to hold you tightly into the tale being told. Vivid descriptions mixed with awesome character development. Really loved the fleshed-out persons inside the unfolding plot. 40 pages in I was thoroughly hooked and I knew that this was going to be one of those books that held me tight and never let good, and all I can say is this is a great book of human monstrosity right along with unknown monsters lurking in the darkness of the world.
What I love about reading the biography of Kurt Anderson is he happens to be an environmental scientist. Loves hunting, fishing, and loves the wilderness, and those loves are clearly written in these pages. You can tell the writer is a lover of the outdoors. He places you there in the woods, the hunt, the showdown. Kurt knows how to take the landscape and take the reader and place them into that landscape.
The brutal reality of description is what makes this tale a flawless reading. Anderson knows how to write detail. A graphic intense detail that thoroughly never lets up. I loved the description power of Anderson’s writing.
As the back of the book says: It is Real….It is Rising…It is Ravenous, truly a perfect description of this book. A fun, wild, intense ride of imaginative perfection.
Would I Return to it Again? I will return to the author. He has a wonderful sense of pure storytelling that makes a lasting impression that makes the reader remember the story long after it’s over and that is what I love about good writers.
Would I Recommend: Anyone who loves a mother nature or creature feature in the middle of the woods style story, absolutely. Fans of monsters and human monsters will take to this book and make it their own.
My Rating: 4 out of 5
Four Final Words: Darkly, Masterly, Emotionally Intense.
January 25, 2018
Published 2017. First read Anderson through his debut in "Devour". "Resurrection Pass" has some interesting elements and the author has somewhat the same here, keeping me interested with the plots and some characters. 3 1/2 stars for this outing.
September 24, 2020
Big, big improvement on Devour. It had a “The Ruins” vibe to it and kept me engrossed.
January 4, 2023
Enjoyed the writing, horror movie vibes for sure. It just left me a bit confused - though it may be ambiguous on purpose. Recommend if you like weird monster stories
February 24, 2024
The ending was a little lackluster, but the build up to the creature's appearance was well done.
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