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Long Ride Home A Cambio Springs Short Story eBook Elizabeth Hunter

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Long Ride Home A Cambio Springs Short Story eBook Elizabeth Hunter

I've yet to read book #1 in the Cambio Springs series but I think this prequel has given enough for me to seriously think on investing in the trilogy.

This introduction gave me several reasons to start "Shifting Dreams".

1. Jena Crowe has a secret.
2. In three days she has to say goodbye to the love of her life.
3. Facing life while trying to raise two young boys.

I want to give you more but that's spoiler alert. Suffice to say it's an unusually heartbreaking entry into a series. One that I hope will deliver


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Long Ride Home A Cambio Springs Short Story eBook Elizabeth Hunter Reviews

I have to say that this Cambio Springs prequel short story really surprised me. Having read her longer works, I had thought that Hunter's strength was the thorough but gradual development of her characters and their relationships. Well, I just discovered that Hunter can also do the same thing but in a really short amount of space - and totally yank at the reader's heartstrings while doing it. I am a short story fan and Long Ride Home was a really good one that has stoked my anticipation for the series that follows.
I simply like Elizabeth Hunter's style. My favorite so far were the Elemental Series, a very refreshing way to look at vampires. She does seem to be more character driven than plot driven in her writing, which is fine by me. OK, she is no John Steinbeck, but a lot of fun and a series of very fun hypotheses. This is a long short story or short novella, fun, a good rainy day read. It is chance to look at a world with new Rules of Order, new science, have it make sense, and meet some very delightful and some not so delightful characters. I am planning on reading another of her series, hoping they are as strong as her first.
Our author cleverly uses the long automobile trip back to the hidden desert hometown of her beginnings, with the companionship of her child, following the loss of her husband. She is remembering her past, she is revealing the hidden life of a type of human known only by most folk in terms of myth, story and fantasy. She is preparing herself for a new life and sense of identity and meaning and purpose, and there is much uncertainty and anxiety around this compelling need to return to her home and these mysterious out-of-normal-bounds people and ways of being human. It definitely made me hungery for more.
Long Ride Home is a short story that is anything BUT short on story. Within the thirty-nine pages is conversation so poignant between Jena and her husband, Lowell, that I couldn't help feeling overcome with a profound sense of what they had lost as a couple with his predetermined death. For even in death, Low was a remarkable character. His ghostly wisdom and the love he felt for Jena and their sons transcended his mortal being. I think what I love most about Elizabeth Hunter's writing is her ability to make me forget that her characters are anything BUT human. In the minutes it took me to read Long Ride Home I experienced a gamut of emotions, and empathy the likes of which only Ms. Hunter's remarkable preternatural characters can conjure.

Read 10/13/2013
This was a well written quick introduction to how Jena came to be back in Cambio Springs. Very good descriptions of her husband and her two boys. Also, gives you a preview of what she turns into. Makes me want to carry on the eries.
4.5 stars...The only thing keeping me from rating this 5 stars is that it's so short, only 25 pages. But wow...in only 25 pages, I was totally intrigued, brought to tears, and blown away! What a great introduction to the Cambio Springs series. I cannot wait to dive into Shifting Dreams (Cambio Springs, #1) by Elizabeth Hunter! I fell in love with Hunter's writing with the Irin Chronicles and am so happy to explore more of her lyrical writing. Her books are magical. A Must Read!
Jena Crowe McCann is going home. In the backseat of her Subaru, her two children sleep and next to her in the passenger seat, the ghost of her husband keeps her company on the long ride home.

This short story takes place over three days and three nights and introduces readers to Ms. Hunter's new Cambio Springs series. During the nights Jena talks to her husband's ghost and during the day the reader gets to see her interactions with her kids and it's through these conversations and interactions that we find out about Jena's life with her husband and children and the town that she is going home too. Because Cambio Springs is a town of shape shifters.

The author is able to pack a lot of emotion and heart into such a short story and readers will cry as Jena and her husband say their last good-bye.
I've yet to read book #1 in the Cambio Springs series but I think this prequel has given enough for me to seriously think on investing in the trilogy.

This introduction gave me several reasons to start "Shifting Dreams".

1. Jena Crowe has a secret.
2. In three days she has to say goodbye to the love of her life.
3. Facing life while trying to raise two young boys.

I want to give you more but that's spoiler alert. Suffice to say it's an unusually heartbreaking entry into a series. One that I hope will deliver