A review by vanxjs
Heresy by Melissa Lenhardt

4.0

Fun, action-packed story with well developed, complex characters - loved the super strong women and the flipping of the typical Western tropes! This is not a genre that usually appeals to me, but the feminist approach was well done. The only gripes I had were the use of "multiple sources" in the book to "corroborate" the story, which was set up as an academic research exercise, and the overly frequent use of foreshadowing, like having a character do something and then saying "only later did [she] realize she'd left her gun behind," or whatever, so there weren't that many true surprises. But overall, I enjoyed it and think this book fills a niche I didn't know existed. (Unless I'm missing the other feminist westerns out there?)