Kingdom River: Book Two of the Snowfall Trilogy

by Mitchell Smith

Book Overview

Sam Monroe is the reluctant commander of a tough-minded warrior people living in what was once northern Mexico. His tiny country is flanked on the northeast by the Kingdom River, a vast, trade-driven... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765340585
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 1.1" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

A writer well worth examining

Mitchell Smith is exceptionally skilled at several aspects of writing. His action scenes are grim, exciting, original and very real; he has a splendid eye for character quirks and observations; he has a strong ability to evoke sensual pleasures, whether it's sex, food, injuring some deserving individual, or going to the bathroom. This trilogy is not my favorite of his works, but it nevertheless contains a large amount of good writing. Readers would be well advised to read Stone City, Karma, Due North and Daydreams. He has also written 12 short western novels under the name of Roy LeBeau; the Buckskin series (just the first 12 titles). The Buckskin novels all contain in their brief pages more splendidly evoked sex, violence and western atmosphere than you might guess. They are the acme of Western excitement. The writing is first rate, the kills and sex highly impacting the reader. Mr. Smith is to be congratulated for his scorching descriptions of every possible heterosexual sex act; sort of a progression through the series to ever greater hard core intensity. Nice work! Buy a couple; you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Entertaining post-apocalyptic war novel

Centuries after a sudden ice age crushed our civilization, North America is divided into several kingdoms. New England, with strange mental powers and genetic engineering keeping alive amidst the great glacier, the Southern empire in Mexico, the Khanate in the Southwest, and a powerful but stagnant Middle Kingdom surrounding the enormous River that was once Mississippi. The small, fractious country in the North Mexico has little chance between the warring giants, except for their tradition of independence, and their leader, the reluctant general Sam Monroe.The story of Sam, and his attempts to block the all-conquering, mongol-like Khanate from running over the continent, is entertaining, full of battles and human interest stories. The language seems a bit burdened at times, with constant references to Warm-times, and the topic familiar. However, the major characters are interesting, Sam himself sympathetic, and the battles, and the politics exciting and tense.--inotherworlds.com

apocalyptic future world

In the distant future a curtain of ice stretches from sea to once shining sea. To survive one must head south of the great wall of ice that has devastated what were once much of the United States and all of Canada. To endure, clans and kingdoms formed as people battles for control of the livable land left on the North America.Years have passed since Monroe and Olsen led the Colorado Trappers south where they join forces with the Garden tree-dwellers (see SNOWFALL). Jack and Catania's son Sam now leads the army of North-Map Mexico, but knows that his people are on the easement and that the Khanate nomads led by Toghrul Khan will ravage the land on their way to war with Kingdom River ruled by Queen Joan. Sam knows his relatively small country has no chance though the never defeated army would risk their lives to prove otherwise. He needs an alliance with Joan, but worries that her much larger nation will gobble up his small country. To have some say in the confederacy, Sam marries the Kingdom's Princess Rachel. War remains inevitable as Khan and his barbarians sweep over all in their path.The second tale in Mitchell Smith's apocalyptic future world, KINGDOM RIVER, is a very exciting look at people struggling to survive a harsh time, but in this novel (as opposed to the ice of SNOWFALL) it is from enemy forces. The story line escorts the reader to a changed realm where civilization almost totally collapsed. The audience will picture this frozen wasteland as a distinct possibility because Mr. Smith goes to extreme lengths through his strong characters and vivid universe to make everything believable.Harriet Klausner