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Van Reid is one of my two current, favorite authors. His characters are rich and vivid. Reid manages to generate laughter while also creating atmospheres of adventure and suspense. I thoroughly love and enjoy this series.


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Daniel Plainway Or The Holiday Haunting of the Moosepath League Van Reid Books Reviews

Hurray for the Moosepath League!! Maine novelist Van Reid now has published a series of his comic, sweet novels, each more pleasurable than the last, featuring Tobias Walton and his companions Ephram, Eagleton and Thump. His most recent offering, Daniel Plainway Or the Holiday Haunting of the Moosepath League, is the perfect Christmastime or winter fireside book. Woven with so many pleasurable amiable asides and subplots, the main story about a kidnaped boy and ancient Norse writings seems almost an afterthought. To take one example, Walton, whom Reid describes as "himself a pearl, and good things did seem to surround him", starts the novel losing his hat in a sudden wind; the peregrinations of that topper itself, and the goodwill it seems to bear from its owner, flow delightfully through the story. In another delightful scene, Reid waxes rhapsodically on the perfect qualities of snow for snowballs, leading to a delightful snowfall fight involving the novel's heros, villains, and local youngsters. A particularly pleasurable turn for me, a former classicist, is that the interpretation of the writings depends on hearing the Greek spoken in a seemingly nonsensical English phrase, "she'll bust her feeding." Although always lighthearted, Reid's novel is not without serious purpose, as expressed in the dialogue as to whether "there are so many people in the world willing to drive tragedy" or whether "there are as many, more, really, who are willing to put things right." In Reid's world, those who good-heartedly "put things right" - most especially the comical Moosepath League - predominate. I finished his book with a fair certainty that the same prevailed in my own place and time.
'Daniel Plainway' is the third foray into the adventures of The Moosepath League for Van Reid, following 'Cordelia Underwood' and 'Mollie Peer'. If you have not read those volumes, do so now.
In this episode, the charter members of The Mossepath League encounter their alter egos in the form of the Dash-it-All Boys, while the other members of the league match themselves against a secret society, obsessed with discovering lost Viking riches, known as the Broumnage Club.
These adventures, however, are once again woven into the fabric of the continuing story of Bird, a small boy whose story has been heretofore a mystery, in great Van Reid style. That is to say brilliantly. Reid's talent for intertwining story threads is unmatched by any author in my eclectic library, and it is a singular pleasure to find recurring, peripheral characters scattered about the pages of 'Daniel Plainway', as well as 'Mollie Peer'. When these characters appear, it is sometimes to deliver a funny anecdote or story, or to be merely a small participant in an ongoing conversation; and whether identified by name, or left for me to surmise their identity myself, I always feel like a participant in an inside joke.
I would love to apprise you as to the identity of Daniel Plainway, or hint at how he is connected to young Bird, but I feel I would be diminishing your reading pleasure, not enhancing it. The best turn I could do for you, in regards to this review, is stress upon you the joy you will have in reading Van Reid's chronicles of The Moosepath League, starting with 'Cordelia Underwood', then 'Mollie Peer' and ending with 'Daniel Plainway'.
I feel confident when you are finished with this trio, you will be anticipating the fourth installment in this saga as eagerly as I am.
This is the third in the Moosepath League series by Van Reid, and it’s yet another excellent addition to the line. This is a Christmas adventure set in 1896 as the mystery of a lost boy collides with a missing treasure and an ancient mystery deep in the woods of Maine. The title character is an attorney whose story is told in flashback segments - how he became involved with a family that included a beautiful young woman who met a tragic fate, and the missing fortune tied to a (possibly) haunted house. Daniel’s path crosses the members of the Moosepath League as they strive to find the secret behind a young boy they helped rescue (see “Mollie Peer”) and the painting of a young woman that holds the key. The story is loaded with wonderful characters, locations and encounters. The adventure, no matter how dark and mysterious, is leavened by good humor, intelligence and the good-hearted nature (and kindness) of the main characters. These are people you know (or wish you knew). Even the smallest characters are a delight - the elderly Pettengill sisters are one of my favorites - I love the description of them as “...fine, delicate-looking creatures, every one of them exquisite in the absolute honesty of her age.” Reid manages to weave several different stories separately and then together, keeps the reader guessing with mysteries and unexpected twists, and ties it all together in a satisfying conclusion. Highly, highly recommended!
A five-star story - I'm rereading all of Van Reid's novels and this is a favorite. But I've never seen an e-book with so many missing letters, errant symbols, and missing words. In the latter half of the book, entire sentences are interrupted by subsequent sentences, and paragraphs (well-rendered or otherwise) are run together, often with multiple lines of dialogue. This visual dissonance takes away from the story, making the reading initially awkward, and later difficult. Such rotten editing disrespects the author and his readers. Not cool.
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This is a terrific book. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. There are interesting characters, an inventive and creative plot and subplots, and the heroes are all people of deep and abiding integrity. Van Reid has done it again!
Van Reid is one of my two current, favorite authors. His characters are rich and vivid. Reid manages to generate laughter while also creating atmospheres of adventure and suspense. I thoroughly love and enjoy this series.