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The Scout #15
Texas Tease
Book by Gentry, B.
238 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1984
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January 8, 2025
At this point in the series, The Scout is alternating between something of a story arc and business-as-usual romps in the Dakota Territory. No doubt the result of differing writers. I've mostly enjoyed the results. Slightly more ambitious fare from one and then the usual business from the other.
Texas Tease is a really unfortunate misfire, then, because I was liking the direction the series was going in. Based on hints over the last few books, the author(s) has been wanting to go to Texas and play around with its history for a while. Sadly, he can't kindle the same enthusiasm in this reader. After a promising start, Eli Holten's ride with the Texas Rangers falls into a bleary mystery plot and a smorgasbord of ranchers, rangers, soldiers, Natives, and others--seemingly designed to blur together. There's an obstructive bureaucrat character in the form of a Quaker who is quick to blame all the renegade Indians' crimes on the white man, but when the most memorable personality in your rooting-tooting Texas story is a liberal, you've got problems.
The brunt of the action focuses around Louise van Pelton, who is basically a Playboy joke stretched out into... really, she's the female lead, there are no other contenders. She's a fourteen-year-old nymphomaniac who is treated as a Stephen King character by the rest of the cast because she loves to fuck so much and so she wears all the men out. The various factions literally pass her around, trying to get rid of her, because she's a walking gangbang. So when the Indian villains try to gang-rape her, she enjoys it and later, they're all too tired to fight and Holten is able to kill them with little effort. Yuk yuk yuk.
I get it, it's nothing more than a dirty joke and this is all fiction for rational adults, blab blah. But the whole "she started having sex when she was eleven" thing you come across in old books is gross enough on its own--turning that into a whole characterization is just too much to overlook, even for The Scout. It's too disturbing to be humorous and I'm pretty sure it's illegal to be titillating, which the author must know, given that he writes Holten trying to avoid giving into her 'wiles' (small favors and all that).
If this is your bag, whatever, I just don't want it popping into a whole book of moderately normal people fiction. What's next? Is The Marksman going to have a foot fetish? Do I have to worry about Edge being a furry?
Texas Tease is a really unfortunate misfire, then, because I was liking the direction the series was going in. Based on hints over the last few books, the author(s) has been wanting to go to Texas and play around with its history for a while. Sadly, he can't kindle the same enthusiasm in this reader. After a promising start, Eli Holten's ride with the Texas Rangers falls into a bleary mystery plot and a smorgasbord of ranchers, rangers, soldiers, Natives, and others--seemingly designed to blur together. There's an obstructive bureaucrat character in the form of a Quaker who is quick to blame all the renegade Indians' crimes on the white man, but when the most memorable personality in your rooting-tooting Texas story is a liberal, you've got problems.
The brunt of the action focuses around Louise van Pelton, who is basically a Playboy joke stretched out into... really, she's the female lead, there are no other contenders. She's a fourteen-year-old nymphomaniac who is treated as a Stephen King character by the rest of the cast because she loves to fuck so much and so she wears all the men out. The various factions literally pass her around, trying to get rid of her, because she's a walking gangbang. So when the Indian villains try to gang-rape her, she enjoys it and later, they're all too tired to fight and Holten is able to kill them with little effort. Yuk yuk yuk.
I get it, it's nothing more than a dirty joke and this is all fiction for rational adults, blab blah. But the whole "she started having sex when she was eleven" thing you come across in old books is gross enough on its own--turning that into a whole characterization is just too much to overlook, even for The Scout. It's too disturbing to be humorous and I'm pretty sure it's illegal to be titillating, which the author must know, given that he writes Holten trying to avoid giving into her 'wiles' (small favors and all that).
If this is your bag, whatever, I just don't want it popping into a whole book of moderately normal people fiction. What's next? Is The Marksman going to have a foot fetish? Do I have to worry about Edge being a furry?
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