“You have come to die?"
"No. I've come to kill a sleazy
snake, a yellow rat that hasn't got one grain of sand in his craw. You wanted
me-well, you sniveling butcher, here I am!"
I was led to this by a recommendation from a Good Man
who as a source for good reads fits me well 90% of the time, well, this is one
of those 10%ers.
It is a serviceable if formulaic read, a less-skilled “Josey
Wales” and ragtag crew tale. My tolerance for such things can be higher but……and
this may just be me, but our protagonist displays a casual violence to women
that is seemingly portrayed as admirable that I find hard to stomach or justify
with “heroic.”
Readers of this blog know that my taste can lean to
well-limned violence and this negative reaction is less about the violence and
more the admiration of “This is how you court a lady, a little slap here and
there and call her brat.”
If the level of the opening prose works for you and
this reader’s qualms with “Women love to be slapped” does not worry you,
well, you may find something here, but honestly, there is simply better fare up
and down the line.
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