The Looking Glass

By: Richard Paul Evans

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

"It is silent now, the blizzard has paused and left the moment still. I think about them both at such times -- roaming the shadowlands of remembrance amidst the shards of my broken heart."
--Exerpt from Hunter Bell's diary

The winter storms of the wide-open frontier reflect the anguish raging in Hunter Bell, a minister who heads to Utah's gold-mining towns after his wife dies in childbirth. A man with nothing left ot loose, he plays the card tables for money to care for his youngs daughter back home. But in the heart of a driving blizzard, Hunter makes a shocking discovery --and begins to see that a life tested by unthinkable cruelty can still be rich with faith, love, and hope for a better tomorrow...

#1 bestselling author Richard Paul Evans steps back to the American Old West with this powerful novel of love and redemption, part of a trilogy that includes The Locket and The Carousel.

Surprising

I Enjoy Richard Paul Evans Books. This one was set in a different time and place and hooks you from the beginning.

can't go wrong

you really can't go wrong with a Richard Paul Evans book he never disappoints! the best!

refreshing

I love his books. deeply touching...and does not violate my spiritual foundation and my principals!

Good tale, but violence victims didn't ring true

Richard Paul Evans comes through again using his best writing skill describing physical environments with broad strokes and the minutae of body movement, smells, and weather. The problem I have is how his central character, his alter-ego, reacts to loss of true love, yet his heroines are emotionally and physically brutalized but never lose their strength of character. They don't ever have a single PTS moment, and can even be self-righteous if love isn't delivered true.
I get it faith in God above can carry you through the darkest times, but no true believer ever, ever can be emotionally crippled, unless you're a young widower or a mother whose child died. Any other of lives brutality is just a speed bump with no after affects. And this book has some pretty violent stuff. I fast-forwarded through pages of aggressively mean prose because the senseless acts were too heavy handed and the details of cruelty move the plot line very little.

loved it

kept my interest. the Ending was suprising. Interesting that it took place in Utah! Great!