Death Rides A Chestnut Mare

It was the late author Bill Crider, with his 'Outrage at Blanco' novel that made me love revenge stories so much and in away revenge stories for me will always be a tribute to him. Basically a re-read, plucked out of my library, have always liked Ralph Compton's writing, his Danny Duggin series proba......more

I had great hopes for this one. I mean, what's cooler than a teenaged girl taking on the identity of her murdered father to seek vengeance? Not much, that's what. Unfortunately, this was a choppy, one-note book. You'd almost think that Danielle (the vengeance-seeking main character) had the powers of......more

This book should have been awesome. The cover: awesome. The tiltle: awesome. The story line: come on, a girl revenging her fathers muders by dressing as a man, carrying her fathers trademark Colts and hunting down and killing the men who mudered her father: awesome. I don't know what happen but I wa......more

This was an easy, light read, which was refreshing. The main character is a young woman who passes herself off as a man, set on avenging her father's killers. While we get deeply into the character, I liked her and admired her adeptness and intelligence--which not only got her revenge but saved her......more

Pretty choppy and has some serious pacing issues (like shooting two people, the first two people the main character ever kills, who bushwhack the main character gets a paragraph, but the book is still 360 pages long). Doesn't have a real ending. I don't regret reading it, because it was fun, but I w......more