Review: Standard western but worth reading
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 7, 2013
Pretty good read.  Story opens in a Missouri partridge pea field. Author does a great job describing the sights and smells of a warm summer's day. Grisly murder occurs thereby setting the plot in motion.  Most of the scenes are are well described.  Major characters developed in detail, but ancillary ones are not.  The supposed months and years Wade spends travelling to his revenge climax in Kansas are reduced to a chapter or less and sparse in details.  Just what happened to the relationship between the Farm woman who enticed Wade to spend the Winter?  Blood and gore vividly described.  Nevada Smith (the one with Steve McQueen) plot interesting but pretty standard western revenge. Gets slow in some parts.  Did not like the ending. Not as good as his previous books. Kept me interested and engaged for about a day where I finished it.  Left with tired standard Western plot, needs help, maybe; Hoppalong Cassidy action, or maybe a school marm love interest.