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Title: Fatal Encounter
Series: The Adventures of Bass Reeves Deputy US Marshal #1
Authors: Charles Ray
Rating: 2.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Western
Pages: 119
Words: 41.5K
| Synopsis: |
Bass Reeves, the first black US Marshal, regularly deals with outlaws in the Indian Territories of the late 1800’s. After a Texas Ranger enters the Territories going after a gang and gets killed, it is up to Reeves to track down the desperado and bring him to final justice.
| My Thoughts: |
I wanted to like this western. However, the writing was mediocre and the story not much more than “and then he tracked the bad guy down and killed him”. Throw in the authors perpetuation of the Noble Savage myth and well, liberal ideology about race plays a big part of the story.
I won’t be reading any more though because of just how mediocre and banal this was. It wasn’t exciting, it wasn’t tense and writing was pedestrian at best. I won’t waste more time on an author who can’t write better than this. Plus, Bass Reeves was a real man and he deserves something better than this to represent everything he stood for and what he did.
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Was this a true story or fiction based on a real person?
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I’m pretty sure this was fiction based on a real person. Nothing in the introduction led me to believe the stories being written were based on real cases.
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Too bad it wasn’t a better read. Sounds like it might have been interesting. But I don’t read a lot of Westerns.
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I was hoping this might tide me over for the rest of the year in terms of westerns. Alas and alack, it was not to be…
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Ah well, that’s a shame. Onwards…
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This was my last try at a western. I guess that leg of my reading journey is over now…
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I do like Western movies but don’t think a book would do it for me.
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Do liberal cowboys wear mauve jumpsuits?
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I hadn’t thought of that angle. Let me think about it today and get back to you after work.
This is the kind of insightful comment that I want to carefully foster here….
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And having thought about this all day, here is Judge Bookstooge’s verdict:
Yes.
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Liberal ideology about race is for me just a pompous description of the stuff that comes out of the south end of a northbound bull so that alone is a showstopper for me.
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So now you know, don’t try this. I’m just bummed because I don’t have any more new to me westerns to try.
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Welp. There’s goes another Western-writing author. The hunt continues.
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At this point, I think I’ve given up.
I did try another series, but it was something way different than I was expecting. I got the first book as a free ebook and didn’t look at the cover. I will not be continuing with it and I won’t be blogging about it either….
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Noooooo that sounds too funny! I want to hear how it tortured you psychologically and changed your vision of life for the worse or something!!! 🙂
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Go look up Longarm by Tabor Evans. That should be enough…
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Hahahaha you entered the world of “adult westerns” 😂 😂 😂
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Indeed I did. It was shocking when I realized what I’d gotten myself into. I had no idea….
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Patricia McKillip just passed away.
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Thanks for the heads up. I”m off to investigate.
Poop….
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I know you shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover … but the review suits the cover tbh. Tad mediocre.
Unfortunate, a good western is hard to find
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Indeed, the really does.
I have decided to give up on trying to find more westerns. If I ever get the itch, I’ll dig up a random Louis Lamour and call it good enough.
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