The Curious Hand by Seamus Fogarty
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Originally from County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland, Fogarty now resides in London, and the...
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Tiny Epic Western
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HOOK: Poker meets worker-placement DESCRIPTION: The West is growing day by day, and you’re...
David McK (3425 KP) rated Star Wars vol 10: The Escape in Books
Jun 30, 2019
Scattered across the galaxy following their defeat by the Empire (and betrayal by Queen Trios of Shu-Torun), this finds Luke, Leia and Han stranded on a planet cut off for the outside world, with only limited communication and contact with that galaxy (so not quite like being stranded on Earth!).
Cue an increasing impatient Luke looking for ways off the planet while also falling for his host's daughter, Han and Leia growing increasingly close, and a little bit of Wild West thrown in before (eventually) they are tracked down by The Empire and make their escape once more ...
Dead Man's Walk
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These are the wild days when Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call - heroes of Lonesome Dove - first encounter...
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Wanted: Dead or Undead (Zombie West #1) in Books
Jan 6, 2021
It had a bit of everything I like in a book: romance, adventure, cowboys...and I kinda like zombie books, too (though they have to have a bit of romance in them as well). It didn't shirk on the horror details either with some rather creepy scenes involving one family.
I really liked Trace/Cowboy and Elisabeth/Red. They were both really great characters and I have to say that Cowboy seemed like the ideal guy to meet in a wild west zombie apocalypse. As for Red, she was pretty kick-arse. The secondary characters were cool too.
I'm very intrigued as to what will happen next in the series and can't wait to read the second book in the series.
Damsel (2018)
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It’s the age of The Wild West, circa 1870. An affluent pioneer, Samuel Alabaster (Robert...
Return to Wylder (The Wylder West)
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The untimely death of EJ Hampton’s father kills her dream of practicing law with him in her...
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David McK (3425 KP) rated Shanghai Knights (2003) in Movies
May 27, 2023
I know I've seen that earlier movie, but don't remember all that much about it, other than it was Wild West set and starred the same two lead actors in Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson.
This time around, the two end up in Victorian London in search of a McGuffin after Chon Wang's (Chan's) father - who is the keeper of the Imperial Seal - is murdered, with Wang then reuniting with his estranged sister.
As expected, they then encounter a whole host of historical characters, and get involved in all sorts of escapades, with it never really being in any doubt how it will end ...
So, yeah, family friendly fare that relies heavily on Owen's laid-back approach contrasting with Chan's high-energy slapstick martial arts.
Colt Express
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The game officially transposed from Colt Express, the famous train robbery boardgame. Plot your...
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Merissa (12061 KP) rated Outrageous Offer (The Double O Saga #1) in Books
Dec 17, 2018
This is a short but steamy tale of the old West, when men were men and women did what they were told. Hyacinth has been left high and dry by the two men she was supposed to marry, left in a town in the middle of nowhere and no-one will help her. Only one person will help but his offer comes with conditions.
In spite of this, he is her only chance of not working in a saloon so she accepts. Things very quickly heat up between them. The more time the spend together, the more they fit. Life doesn't have a way of running smoothly though and Offer and Hyacinth have their own hurdles to cross.
This was very well-written and moves at a very swift pace. My only concern is that it finishes quite abruptly, even though it is an 'ending' and not a cliffhanger. The characters are all relateable, whether you're supposed to like them or not, you follow the author's lead.
For a swift read about the Wild West, I can recommend this book.
Merissa
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