The Widow and the Tree

Started strong, lost ground though-intriguing idea and true to the setting. Engaging, enjoyable.......more

The imagery is good and is the reason I gave more than one star. There's lots of awkward sentence structure throughout this book, so much so that I was re-wording many sentences in my head as I read them. The story didn't really do much for me, in fact for such a short book it kind of plodded along......more

What an amazing read! It reads like a dream and a myth and a step back in time. It's a book about a beautiful widow, a 500 year old tree, a black panther that shouldn't exist in that place and time, a crow who picked up a button and a veteran with a past to it all. Then one day, the widow walks into......more

This book is based on a true story that happened in south Alabama, my home state. However, the writing style was so difficult to follow that I found it hard to get to the story much less really understand the characters' motivations and feelings. In short, a widow owns a piece of property that conta......more

It starts with the characters presented in the title: The Widow and the Tree. Then we meet the deputy and the game warden, the panther and the crow, the veteran and the widow’s dog, and a few more, mostly unnamed, players in this classic Man vs. Nature saga that is the story of our main, aptly named......more