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Journalist Charlotte Drummond is wealthy, educated, rational—the rare independent woman in 1880s London, center of the changing world of the British Empire. When her young cousin Amanda is kidnapped in far-away India, Charlotte uses all her resources to put together a team with special skills to help rescue Amanda. Advanced technology is a must. As is travel across the world. Meanwhile strange forces from far-flung quarters of the globe threaten to overwhelm every effort. Some seem to come from beyond the material world. Some are quite rationally evil. Yet even as Charlotte strains to defeat the forces she can see, her nightmares prefigure the terror of incomprehensible violence--violence, and a loathsome man in a secret cave in the remote mountains of the Hindu Kush. And still more, the tigers.
Anima and the Goat Hunt Tooley Books
This is a book that might never have crossed my radar had I not seen it in my daughter’s undergraduate college alumni publication. I always flip through it to see if any of her former professors are featured and happened to notice this novel by Hunt Tooley, her faculty advisor during her time there.First, let me say that I love the cover on this book. It truly reflects the story. Now… I’ve read other novels by history professor-turned-novelists, but I could really tell this was written by a history professor. That’s not a bad thing, though. It just took me a bit to get into his writing style and it’s a time and place in history with which I’m not terribly familiar, meaning there was a lot of information for me to digest.
Bottom line – I thought it was a very good story. Charlotte is a likable, strong female protagonist and she surrounds herself with an interesting group of characters throughout. Parallel to, yet converging in places, is the tale of Avinash and a crazy goat named Bula.
And then, there are the tigers…
I was pleased to see at the end of the book that there will be another adventure featuring Charlotte in the future. I look forward to it.
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Anima and the Goat Hunt Tooley Books Reviews
This was a wonderful book. I cant help but think the author's background as a renowned historian is what separates this novel from your run-of-the-mill thriller. This was a novel with substance. I was very impressed. Highly recommend
If you are looking for an indulgent romance, or a good ole bodice ripper, be warned -- this ain't it! Hunt Tooley has brought both strong historical acumen and mystical depth to "Anima and the Goat." "Anima" is the analytic psychological term for the soul, which C.G. Jung understood as the feminine dimension of the male psyche. The anima can be blindly projected by the male onto actual women in the love quest, often with dire consequences. As for the goat -- well, its symbolism needs no explanation. Although a highly engaging historical adventure novel, "Anima and the Goat" also has archetypal depth, then. Jung, who used to extol the virtues of H. Rider Haggard's "She," would himself have loved it. It is in popular literature, he argued, that the archetypes of the soul are most clearly manifest. A popular novel with archetypal depth. What more could one ask?
A great novel, an absolute treat.
A gripping historical adventure, accurate and plausible. Frequently funny and often poetic. Action heavy yet deeply insightful. The history of it is finely crafted with not just the facts, but the perspectives of several highly engaging characters (human and animal) as they are moved by the new modernity of the 1880's British Empire. The story respects the eastern ethos as much as the western, and mystical elements of the tiger and goat express this perfectly.
I like the heroine and the Captain Brodie character, would love to read more. Tooley also writes action incredibly well, without the super hero nonsense you see in so many action heavy novels.
Knowing that Tooley is an historian, I expected marvelous detail and historical accuracy. He delivered not only in historical detail but also in rich descriptions of cities, fabrics, foods and landscapes. What surprised me was that, as he developed the characters, each chapter carried the voice of main character. The story is complex but always entertaining and I could not put it down for the last 100 pages or so. I hope he finds time to write another. I was slightly distracted by the occasional typo but in a book this long, there were relatively few.
This is a book that might never have crossed my radar had I not seen it in my daughter’s undergraduate college alumni publication. I always flip through it to see if any of her former professors are featured and happened to notice this novel by Hunt Tooley, her faculty advisor during her time there.
First, let me say that I love the cover on this book. It truly reflects the story. Now… I’ve read other novels by history professor-turned-novelists, but I could really tell this was written by a history professor. That’s not a bad thing, though. It just took me a bit to get into his writing style and it’s a time and place in history with which I’m not terribly familiar, meaning there was a lot of information for me to digest.
Bottom line – I thought it was a very good story. Charlotte is a likable, strong female protagonist and she surrounds herself with an interesting group of characters throughout. Parallel to, yet converging in places, is the tale of Avinash and a crazy goat named Bula.
And then, there are the tigers…
I was pleased to see at the end of the book that there will be another adventure featuring Charlotte in the future. I look forward to it.
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