samanatha's review
4.0
4/5
Welcome to the wild Wild West. I have a sweet spot in my heart for the western stories. Growing up watching John Wayne movies on AMC and later Tombstone, there’s something about the mountains and bleakness and small towns trying survive. Maybe it was also all the California history lessons I attended. The mining camps and the gold rush making men into fools.
This is an interesting twist on the classic cowboy story. It almost perfectly hit the mark. It rushed itself for the last 40%, which was a shame. I also disliked that those who did wrong really didn’t find any punishment.
As other great reviewers have noted, this is a story first. The intimacy comes second. The building of the tension in the beginning is down well, but then a lot of the book is of the Puritanical denial of self bent, and that’s never fun.
This could have been better if the pacing had been more smooth, the storyline fleshed out, and the romance more heated. Regardless, this is a snappy read and was overall enjoyable.
Welcome to the wild Wild West. I have a sweet spot in my heart for the western stories. Growing up watching John Wayne movies on AMC and later Tombstone, there’s something about the mountains and bleakness and small towns trying survive. Maybe it was also all the California history lessons I attended. The mining camps and the gold rush making men into fools.
This is an interesting twist on the classic cowboy story. It almost perfectly hit the mark. It rushed itself for the last 40%, which was a shame. I also disliked that those who did wrong really didn’t find any punishment.
As other great reviewers have noted, this is a story first. The intimacy comes second. The building of the tension in the beginning is down well, but then a lot of the book is of the Puritanical denial of self bent, and that’s never fun.
This could have been better if the pacing had been more smooth, the storyline fleshed out, and the romance more heated. Regardless, this is a snappy read and was overall enjoyable.
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