A group of misfits band together to track down a gang of murderous desperadoes. The ragtag team of vigilantes track the outlaws through the Old West and into Mexico in order to rescue a young woman they kidnapped after the slaughter of her family.
An entertaining classic western full of western thrills and adventure. 9 s Lisa2,646 42

Title: Guns of the Vigilantes

Author: William W Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone

Pages: 345

Year: 2021

Publisher: Pinnacle

My rating: 4 out of 5 stars.

Deputy Sherriff Dan Caine is the lead character of this story and I suspect the new series as well. Dan is an interesting player as he has high ideals and desires to right a wrong but in practice, he is a greenhorn. Dan knows nothing about bucking the perpetrators he is after, doesn’t know how to recognize when someone else is faster on the draw and lots more. However, by the end of this first book, Dan has gained a gut instinct for when trouble is coming. His best friend is gambler or is there more to that man’s story, too?

The gang Dan and others ride to bring to justice as well as rescue the lone survivor of a massacre, includes a cold-hearted female character named Susan Stanton. The woman’s past is revealed some in the story and her ability to strike fear into others with lightning speed is something. The trail for Dan and his associates is a long one that eventually comes to a fork in the road, and that is when the tension in the novel climbs quickly.

At the end of the book, there is opening for more tales with Dan Caine whether as a deputy sherriff in another town or perhaps again as a vigilante. The authors use many different techniques to tell the story, one of them is by giving the reader a glimpse as to how history would look back and note what occurred during a particular gun fight or other event. Sometimes in the story it was as if someone else was telling the story, so the point of view changed and that at times was confusing to me.

I do look forward to seeing how the character develops and tracking his adventures in any future books in this series; it definitely holds promise!

Note: The opinions shared in this review are solely my responsibility. christopher75 2

This is my first Johnstone novel and I got it at a discounted price. I was expecting a straight easily digestible western. I got more than I expected.

This book is wild and all over the place. There may be a simple plot going through, but along the way you'll have a mummy's curse, a lost sheik, psychics, random Apache attacks and other odd stuff. The narrative is weird in places, sometimes jumping into what present day people know about certain events. Sometimes there's newspaper articles interwoven into the prose.

Is it fun? Yep. Are there vigilantes and outlaws making a mad dash thru the desert? Yep. Are there mentions of breasts? Lots. Is it a bad thing? I suppose that is subjective. For a novel written in 2021, it can be a bit jarring.

Sometimes the action is detailed....sometimes it's not. The dialogue can be wonky. The vigilantes are certainly a misfit ragtag group of people and the outlaws are definitely bad guys. I'm giving this four starts because it's weird cowboy sh*t and I'm here for it. guns-of-the-vigilantes Nolan803 3

Surprised there aren't more ratings on this story. This is a new series by JA Johnstone and her ghost writers. Interesting enough story although a little on the slow side. Mandy Makarewicz100 1 follower

Autor del comentario:
=================================