Review: You'll Love the Latest Holt Western; Makes Him New Zane Grey
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 29, 2013
Over the last year or so I have been reading a lot of Von Holt's western work and from the first I thought he had the writing chops to make himself the next Zane Grey. Grey was, at one time, king of the western genre.  With Holt's latest, "Riding for Revenge," a Hellbound Western, Holt has made my prediction come true. He has learned and improved with each of his books. His transitions are tighter and seamless and his characterizations, including back-story, never intrude. He has also included a plot twist that, like the victims of his gunfighter/bounty hunter antagonists, Bill Random and Jim Wendell/Ryden, I never saw coming. Holt is confident enough now to include multiple major characters that seem real and fully rounded. Indeed, even the bad guys have their good points and one of them is just trying to find his daughters so he rides with a bad bunch (Abe Poser). Holt's maturation as a writer is very evident in "Riding for Revenge." I think I have said enough except that once you pick it up, you won't put it down.