{"id":2837,"date":"2011-12-22T06:37:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T11:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allandouglas.com\/blog\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:41","slug":"book-review-hunted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/book-review-hunted\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Hunted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7015\/6553535137_0df41f1459_o_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 5px;\" title=\"Cover art for Hunted by Lindsay Buroker\" alt=\"Hunted, Lindsay Buroker, steampunk, fantasy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7015\/6553535137_b0d3ed650c_m_d.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>This is my review of &#8220;Hunted&#8221;, which is the second novella in the \u00a0Flash Gold Chronicles series by Lindsay Buroker.\u00a0 In this story Ms. Buroker continues the adventure begun in Flash Gold with Kali and Cedar, now business partners as bounty hunters.\u00a0 They\u2019ve left Moose Jaw and are setting out upon a new adventure seeking Cedar&#8217;s arch nemesis, both for the bounty and for personal vengeance.\u00a0 This takes them to a mining camp out in the wilds of the Yukon where they encounter Kali\u2019s greatest enemy, and her hero, and find themselves in one desperate situation after another.\u00a0\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The story is tightly written with lots of action, witty banter between our protagonists, as well as a few of the antagonists, and is well edited.\u00a0\u00a0 The romantic angle steps up a notch, but is still within the comfort zone of those who do not enjoy romance novels.\u00a0 Much more is revealed about both Kali and Cedar: their backgrounds and motivations.\u00a0 Even the mysterious mechanical genius antagonist steps out of the mists for an introduction.\u00a0 And we get another dose of the wonderful machinery for which steampunk stories are known.<\/p>\n<p>My only reservation about this story is that it wanders a good distance into the realm of fantasy.\u00a0 For me \u2013 and this is a *personal* preference \u2013 any time magic overshadows the mechanics and science I begin to lose interest.\u00a0 &#8220;Hunted&#8221; defines the direction that this series will be taking well enough that I probably will not continue.\u00a0 But only because I don\u2019t care for magic; Ms. Buroker is an excellent writer and I have already bought Ice Crackers and Encrypted, looking for more of her stories and hoping they will be more suited to my admittedly narrow band of tastes.<\/p>\n<p>Most readers will find this a very enjoyable book.\u00a0 Indeed, I enjoyed it, I just don\u2019t care for the direction it\u2019s heading.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=alladougdesi-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;asins=B005H5T84M\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Also available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/hunted-the-flash-gold-chronicles-lindsay-buroker\/1104832639;jsessionid=BDCEA7C4ACC97460B93966E434C72904.prodny_store03-3?ean=2940013133044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/81036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Smashwords<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">More info at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/12374945-hunted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my review of &ldquo;Hunted&rdquo;, which is the second novella in the &nbsp;Flash Gold Chronicles series by Lindsay Buroker.&nbsp; In this story Ms. Buroker continues the adventure begun in Flash Gold with Kali and Cedar, now business partners as bounty hunters.&nbsp; They&rsquo;ve left Moose Jaw and are setting out upon a new adventure seeking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/book-review-hunted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book Review: Hunted&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3,14,13,36],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share-the-love","tag-books","tag-review","tag-scifi","tag-steampunk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21617,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/21617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}