Gunslinger Girl

A girl who can draw a pistol faster than any man A United States devastated by a Second Civil War A decadent city teeming with vice and a particular kind of virtue Lyndsay Ely imagines a new West where gunslinger Serendipity Pity Jones seeks her fortune And you won t be able to put this book down until you finish Pity s thrilling story I know I couldn t.

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Welcome to Cessation, Serendipity Jones The last place on the continent where you can do whatever the hell you want I didn t know Gunslinger Girl existed before the day it arrived on my doorstep I didn t know what to expect, only what the cover and the blurb suggested an explosive blend of futuristic dystopia and Wild West laced with danger, conspiracies and intrigue It is with great pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, to declare that Lyndsay Ely s debut stayed true to its promise The sun Welcome to [...]

I was confused by this one Not to say it wasn t good, it just wasn t for me From the cover, the title, the blurb, and even the beginning I thought I was going to get something very the Quick and the Deadlike, except set in the future Instead it was a hodgepodge of things, and the western stuff is only in the first few chapters As for characters, this is a small thing, but I just didn t like the name Pity, so since it was written in third person I kept seeing Pity, Pity, PITY I would hav I was co [...]

Fans of WESTWORLD will devour this and beg for Dark as a dystopian future and wild as the old West, this is a debut to keep in your sights.

It is entirely possible that the story improves past page 76, but I just can t stick it out This book reads like bargain basement YA from 2007 It does nothing new It takes the standard dystopian tropes, adds some Western flavoring, and calls it a day You have a horrifically misogynistic commune literally called the Commune where everyone talks like an old time Western painted over in sepia and women are coveted for being fertile and traded from commune to commune as underage brides Of c It is en [...]

Well I ve got a bit to say here Some of it will refer specifically to this edition, that is the audio Other things will be general comments I liked the idea behind this book I m a fan of weird westerns , science fiction westerns etc and frankly they are either way too few of them or their just really hard to find I ve picked up most every book I ve come across that might may fit the title description fantasy type westernand sadly most have been, well to be charitable weak.This bo Well I ve got a [...]