Wanted by the Law he travels many years alone through the mountains and deserts of America, the image of his brother giving him the will to push on. He grows from a young boy to a grown man very quickly, people see him as a giant and they begin to fear his size and awful rumours about Håkan start to spread. He doesn’t speak any English and has no money but he is determined to find his brother once he gets to America. They get separated on their journey and Håkan finds himself alone aboard a boat to California. Håkan Söderström and his brother are sent from their home in Sweden to travel to New York in the early 1850’s. When I finally had it in my hands the cover was more beautiful than I remembered, it felt so smooth, everything about how it looked made me so excited to read it.īefore getting into my thought’s of the novel, I’ll fill you in on what the story is about. And now knowing that it was a western it didn’t put me off so I eagerly waited for it to come through the letterbox. I had never read a western before but my father loved cowboys films so I’ve always had an interest in the genre. In the video, when the person was discussing it they made it sound like it was a fantasy novel but after doing my own research I discovered that it was a western. I first came across this book on a YouTube video and I had to have it because the cover blew me away.
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