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A small construction company owned by three friends is hired to build a beautiful house in a secluded spot in Wyoming. The owner of the house is a lawyer who has an urgent need to have the building project completed by Christmas and she is willing to pay a large bonus if the house is ready on schedule. Greed, overwork and meth addiction have a disastrous impact. I didn’t really care for any of the characters, and the lawyer was particularly unbelievable as well as unlikable. The construction pro...
Big fan of Nickolas Butler here, so I'm incapable of giving less than 5 stars to his latest book—a Western thriller that examines the lengths a rich woman will go in pursuing what she wants, at the cost of the men who agree to build her a custom home in the mountains under an intense (and mysterious) deadline.When Butler released his debut, "Shotgun Lovesongs," back in 2013 (OMG has it really been that long ago?!), I loved it so much I put it on my hallowed mental shelf of "Reads I Would Want Wi...
Quite a very boring read. Not much story, quite predictable and not at all believable. Hopefully it goes through another editing before publishing, I found several typos. I would also suggest that they take out some of the fluff and build some of the more interesting story lines. I would have rather read more about Gretchen than the drug issues of the builders. So annoying to feel like you read a tome but didn't get the full story. I don't recommend this book to anyone right now. Thank you to Ne...
Genre: Literary FictionPublisher: PutnamPub. Date: July 27, 2021This book is difficult to review because the pace is often slow. Still, it picks up in places, feeling like a thriller. At both speeds, it draws the reader into a story about friendship, addiction, class, and greed. It centers around three blue-collar buddies in their forties who start a construction company together. They're just scraping by when a wealthy woman offers them a contract to finish her trophy house in the mountains. Th...
Whew! This book was such a page-turner, I feel like I need a vacation after reading.I've read nearly all of Nickolas Butler's books and this one is by far my new favorite. The pacing is top-notch. It's different from his other books, grittier in character and subject matter. Yet, it still has that deep dive into ethics that he does and which I love.The book's premise is an interesting one: three hardworking construction partners get the offer of a lifetime that WILL make or break them. They're i...
Godspeed by Nickolas Butler is the tale of three friends who own a construction business. Bart, Teddy, and Cole, the owners of True Triangle, get the job of a lifetime when a rich California lawyer, Gretchen Connors, wants to build a house in the surrounding mountains of their small town. With an impossible deadline, a huge bonus on the line, and secrets, what could go wrong? One, before the men even start the job, the site is considered cursed. Gretchen Connors had a crew that "mysteriously" qu...
Absolutely not what I was expecting but I loved it- read it in one day. The story was told with such immense empathy that I found myself rooting for each one of the flawed characters.
Butler's latest work takes a turn out west with a thrilling page-turner that still provides rich language, evocative description of land and setting, passages you want to slow down for and really savor. Immersive in the subcultures of unentitled Jackson residents and construction contractors. Always thought-provoking, sometimes hair-raising, with solid characters you cheer and groan for. A very satisfying read that sticks with you. The three contractors at the center of this story are convinced
I didn’t love this book but I do very much enjoy Nicholas Butler’s writing. I felt the second half was tighter and better than the beginning. There are several unlikable characters who do some pretty horrible things but offsetting that is the beauty of the setting and the magnificence of the house that is being built in a kind of mission impossible race against the clock. So this one was enjoyable but not my favorite by this author.
