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In this new alternate history series by the author of the Sookie Stackhouae and Midnight Crossroads trilogy, the 1930s United States has been fractured into separate countries during the Great Depression and after the assassination of FDR. Governance of various regions of the United States have been assumed by other countries, including Canada, Mexico and Russia. A nineteen-year-old female gunslinger mercenary named Lizbeth "Gunnie" Rose has been recently hired by two Russian gregoris (wizards)
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This book isn't as easy to categorize as other Charlaine Harris books. It's a little bit western, a little bit alternate history, a little bit fantasy....
Lizbeth "Gunnie" Rose is a gunnie (basically, a bodyguard/escort to get people through the badlands) who has suddenly found herself without a crew. Her country is not the US that we know. Franklin Roosevelt's assassination, quickly followed by the depression and an influenza outbreak left the country vulnerable, and many parts have been taken ...more
Lizbeth "Gunnie" Rose is a gunnie (basically, a bodyguard/escort to get people through the badlands) who has suddenly found herself without a crew. Her country is not the US that we know. Franklin Roosevelt's assassination, quickly followed by the depression and an influenza outbreak left the country vulnerable, and many parts have been taken ...more
I had a lot of fun with this one. I immediately bought book two on seeing it released today so I could go straight to it after this & i am very glad I did as several weather related symptoms & headaches laid me out nearly all day today - this made that suck a lot less!
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Boring tale, tedious characters. I had to skim to the end & wonder why I bothered. It certainly wasn't thrilling. I won't be bothering with this series. I've read a couple of Teagarden's which were OK, but definitely no more of these. ...more
Boring tale, tedious characters. I had to skim to the end & wonder why I bothered. It certainly wasn't thrilling. I won't be bothering with this series. I've read a couple of Teagarden's which were OK, but definitely no more of these. ...more
Nov 21, 2018
Cora
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Nov 28, 2019
Heather L
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