Review: The Future Past
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 25, 2013
Post Apocalyptic Western. When I read that description I wasn't real sure what I was going to find on the pages. Add the list of `Procreation is necessary, not optional. Women are a precious commodity. Harm the earth, lose your life. If it can eat you, it will' and all kinds of interesting combinations come to mind.As I started to read I loved Hinto from the beginning. He's a bounty hunter trying to collect enough bounties to get a medical treatment for his dad. And in this future/past western Hinto rides a beast, which is a meat eating horse. Which is one of the ways that Marie Harte blended things from the old west with an element you'd think to see in a post apocalyptic world. Small details like this make this new west believable.Thais is an Amazon and is given the task of returning her Queen's crown when it's stolen. Being out of the Amazon puts her well out of her element, even with her abilities to take care of herself. She and Hinto meet up and he offers her his services in tracking down the thief of the crown. As an Amazon, Thais isn't used to dealing with men. So the relationship between the two of them starts slowly as friends and continues to build to the point where you know it's going to just combust when they both give in their need for each other.I have always been a huge fan of Marie's writing and it's her building of the worlds that the characters live and the world itself that always pulls me into her books. By the time I finish one of her books I know the characters like friends and I can visualize the world they live in completely. For me, another fantastic read from Marie.