Review: Heads up: graphic sex, lust, violence
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2014
PISTOLS AND GUNS is a 9 page short story (minus front- and end-matter) by Lynn Townsend.  The book description captures more of the characters' history than the actual short story does....i.e., learning that the female lead's mother was murdered by the villain. The blurb/ book description was intriguing, so I picked up this short (free at the time)....and was surprised to find that the meeting between Eppie and Turner goes from explosive first introduction (as per book description) to disarming the gunman, to knocking the gunman out, to discovering the gunman is actually *female*...and then immediate lust and graphic sex outside.  Granted, they're on the dry and dusty western desert (see blurb).  When two people go from "are you going to stop pointing that gun at me?" to a fist connecting to explosive lust that leads to full-on sex within pages, it's definitely going to appeal to some readers but not others.  The presentation of this very short story was surprisingly good, and the characters' thought processes and reasoning to behave the way they did actually came across well.  Not sure if the author intended this book to fall under erotica, because nothing in the book description nor book categories gave away this important detail; selective readers may find the content to be too much.Sensuality Level: wicked hotLanguage: rated R (and frankly, crass)Violence: vengeful (and perhaps self-defensive) gunfight and killings (call this a parental advisory and/or selective reader advisory)