Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge


GR synopsis:
A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass

The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company’s finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies. When the men abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge. With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out, crawling at first, across hundreds of miles of uncharted American frontier. Based on a true story, The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution.

I read this for my 2016 Popsugar Challenge, "a New York Times bestseller". This book is brilliant. The book ended differently than I expected it to, but it was a great ending. It was flashy, but it seemed perfect for the story. I have yet to see the film, but after speaking with a friend, it seems like the film if pretty different than the book. The last time I was interested in a book where the main character spent 3/4 of it just traversing the terrain was The Lord of the Rings.

This is a book I am going to be talking up for weeks, so be prepared for that. XD

5/5