Vengeance Road

"That sounds real nice, boy," he says. "Now for the love of God, lower that damn pistol." "All right," I says. And I do. Right after I shoot him through the skull. This book is nasty. When I heard that Erin Bowman had written a Western where the protagonist is a girl posing as a cowboy and ends up f......more

More like a 2.75 or 2.5 ish This was good for what it was I just don't really think it was for me. I found myself drifting often, bored by the subject matter. I've never really encountered Westerns before so I didn't know how I'd react but I was mostly yawning. I don't find the whole Western thing ap......more

When I were first learning to shoot a rifle, Pa told me that nearly every battle people face is in their heads. If you think you can't do something, you won't. If you believe you can, it's only a matter of time before you will. this is like True Grit, without all the moralizing for some reason, i thou......more

I love westerns, and it's about time we got more YA ones. VENGEANCE ROAD has some fun shoot 'em up action scenes, some LITTLE WOMEN love, and a neat surprise towards the end, even though it's a little lacking in the kind of spark and grit and conviction (and humor) that you might want from a story a......more

*09/06: After giving this some thought, I lowered my GR star rating to 3 stars, but this book's still a 3.5 for me! Vengeance Road is pure blood and grit. This may sound like a cutesy I-wanted-revenge-but-now-I-just-want-you romance based on the synopsis (and were you thinking,Love triangle alert! l......more