The Revenant

My nephew Ben recommended this one to me.  I was curious-it was the first book he and I had really ever talked about and he gave it high marks.  Of course I knew what it was about-the movie starring Leonardo DiCapri was in every preview I saw for months at one time.  Not a movie I particularly wanted to see...apparently there was a bear mauling and that sounded gruesome and that was that.  However, I can't pass up a good book recommendation so off I went to acquire The Revenant.

First, I had a vague understanding of what "revenant" meant but could not have written a definition out.  Per google its "a person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead".  Hard to believe with all the zombie shows I have watched (ok, really just the Walking Dead and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies but still) and zombie books I have read (yes, well, that's pretty much the Walking Dead and Pet Sematary and Cronin's The Twelve series, if that even counts) I'd have stumbled over this word more often but alas, not that I recall.  But I digress...

I really enjoyed this book.  It was written on