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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A clear and interesting voice for crime. (  ) LaurieRKing | Mar 10, 2010 |  Hall C-3  mosemann | Feb 2, 2010 | I just couldn't get into this book about Joe Pickett, because he was such a.. a shmuck. He was meant to be an everyman, but he missed glaring things and didn't make connections, and basically seemed like a boy who liked camping and was totally out of his depth with no idea of how to swim back. I liked the depictions of Wyoming life and it felt authentic but I wanted a hero with a bit more nous about him. I saw the entire plot almost from the outset, so there was no tension, just a sort of impatience while I watied for Joe to catch up and the story telling was not compelling enough to make up for it. Maybe he gets better later on... I may give the series one more shot... (  ) amf0001 | Jun 18, 2009 | I wanted to read this book because I had read another one in the series ("Free Fire") and thought that it was great. This book is the first of the series and introduces readers to Joe Pickett, a game warden in Wyoming. "Free Fire" is a better book ("I read a review to the effect that it was the best of the series), the writing is smoother and the plot was slightly better developed, but "Open Season" is still a good book. I look forward to reading others in the series to fill in the story gaps between "Open Season" and "Free Fire". Also, there's a new one coming out later in 2009 which I look forward to reading. (  ) BrianEWilliams | Jan 17, 2009 | A great debut novel which sets up family conflicts and obligations and not just the usual solve the problem find the murder story line. This novel introduces “Joe Pickett” Wyoming game warden. Joe is a man of the “West”, a family man who honors his work obligations and his kin. In this novel there is the additional focus of his enjoyment of his daughters and struggles to be a good father and husband as well as the real live tragedies that effect families and his ability as a husband to deal with them. The author has wonderful conversations between relations. There are real conflicts that we all can identify with sometimes between life long friends and mentors. He paints a vivid picture of life in the rural west. How close yet how far apart those relationships can be. A quote from the book – “Then Joe’s entire consciousness, his entire being, focused on one simple question: would he die with his eyes open or closed.” The real western conflict of locals trying to make a living and the conflict of federal laws including endangered species act. This is a good series and well worth reading. ( ) ckNikka | Jul 30, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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In advance reviews, Open Season has been pronounced "something special," (Booklist), and it lives up to the billing. It is not C.J. Box's skill at plotting (the story of greedy business interests and local corruption is fine, but familiar), but rather the character of hero Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden, that makes this a series kickoff to remember. Like all the best mystery protagonists, Pickett is stubbornly ready to risk everything when his own personal sense of morality is at stake. But Joe is also a guy who sometimes gets things wrong, and this characteristic of messing up adds a dimension of humanity to the book.
C.J. Box makes the town of Twelve Sleep, Wyoming (where Joe and his pregnant wife and his daughters have come to live in a tiny house that could be a lot nicer if Joe only had a job that paid better), come alive to the extent that one can almost smell the crisp mountain air and pine needles. The locals display an impressive array of grudge holding and "don't mess with us" attitudes, but Joe is unwilling to forget he's sworn to uphold and enforce a full battery of laws that many of these neighbors have no intention of obeying.
When a well-known poacher, with whom he has humiliatingly tangled, suddenly turns up dead in his own backyard, Joe finds himself at the top of a downward path that, first, will lead to more bodies and then will put his entire family into peril. Open Season doesn't pull its punches, and Box does allow bad things to happen to good people. Read it and find out how skillfully he handles both his hero's complexities and also the ambiguities inherent in a life dedicated to law enforcement. --Otto Penzler
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