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laterry75's review
3.0
Cole and Hitch find the duplicitous Allie French in a bordertown whorehouse. Much to my surprise, they don't leave here there to rot. Again, they find themselves caught between warring factions. No surprises, but plenty of solid action for Western fans and Parker fans.
I love Everett Hitch.
I love Everett Hitch.
auri_underthing's review
adventurous
dark
funny
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
This book was darker than the first two but still enjoyable.
Content Warnings
Minor: Rape
celestelee's review
5.0
I just love these characters. This book is certainly not great fiction and the cadence of their conversations follow the same pattern from book to book as do the evil villians. But still...I just love these characters.
felinehex's review
5.0
I like to listen to westerns as I drive (back and forth from AZ to WA) it calms the cat.
ANYWAY, I couldn't get #3 in this series, so I just borrowed the book and read it.
Love these 2 characters.
Now I can't decide if I want to read the rest of the series and have nothing to listen to next summer.... or wait.
ANYWAY, I couldn't get #3 in this series, so I just borrowed the book and read it.
Love these 2 characters.
Now I can't decide if I want to read the rest of the series and have nothing to listen to next summer.... or wait.
birdmanseven's review
4.0
I'm happy to report that Brimstone was a return to form for this brief series. I loved the first book, Appaloosa, but felt like book two (Resolution) was awkward and forced. Brimstone managed to put the charcters in a fresh situation and allowed the them to move and grow. Very good. I wish there were more than four books!
Tune in for my spotlight on Robert B. Parker: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/episode-28-a-hamburgers-bookmark
Tune in for my spotlight on Robert B. Parker: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/episode-28-a-hamburgers-bookmark
adelayedteacher's review
2.0
Mildly entertaining but lacking much like the previous books in the series.
ericwelch's review
4.0
Audiobook: I listen to a lot of audiobooks in the summer while mowing the lawn which takes about 4-5 hours and given the substantial rain we have had this summer, it’s at least once a week. It’s nice to have something entertaining while negotiating trees and hills.
This series has been wonderfully engaging. Third in the series featuring Cole and Hitch. They have found Allie, Virgil’s former lover who had run away following the abortive affair in Appaloosa. She was in Brimstone working as a whore. They rescue her from the situation and Virgil and Hitch take jobs in Brimstone as deputy sheriffs while Virgil and Allie try to get back on track. She has found religion under the suspect tutelage of Parnell who seems to be in league with Pike, a local saloon owner who is being tracked by a large Indian. Virgil and Hitch have their hands full.
The series has been continued following Parker’s death by Robert Knott. I am reluctant to
try them as I suspect capturing Parker’s unique style in this western series will be very difficult. The audio version, read by Rex Linn, which I sampled, doesn’t come close to Titus Welliver’s narration in the three original works by Parker. The narrator is very important in any audiobook and Welliver does a wonderful job with Parker’s unique cadence that’s so apparent in both the western and Jesse Stone series.
If you like Jesse Stone, I’m sure you’ll like Cole and Hitch.
This series has been wonderfully engaging. Third in the series featuring Cole and Hitch. They have found Allie, Virgil’s former lover who had run away following the abortive affair in Appaloosa. She was in Brimstone working as a whore. They rescue her from the situation and Virgil and Hitch take jobs in Brimstone as deputy sheriffs while Virgil and Allie try to get back on track. She has found religion under the suspect tutelage of Parnell who seems to be in league with Pike, a local saloon owner who is being tracked by a large Indian. Virgil and Hitch have their hands full.
The series has been continued following Parker’s death by Robert Knott. I am reluctant to
try them as I suspect capturing Parker’s unique style in this western series will be very difficult. The audio version, read by Rex Linn, which I sampled, doesn’t come close to Titus Welliver’s narration in the three original works by Parker. The narrator is very important in any audiobook and Welliver does a wonderful job with Parker’s unique cadence that’s so apparent in both the western and Jesse Stone series.
If you like Jesse Stone, I’m sure you’ll like Cole and Hitch.
andydcaf2d's review against another edition
3.0
Had a Louis Lamour feel too it. Definitely not Spenser