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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2615 KP) rated Hired Guns in Books

Jan 11, 2025  
Hired Guns
Hired Guns
Steve Hockensmith | 2024 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Spinoff Series Starts with a Bang
This book finds a trio of Army friends turned adventurers heading to the Arizona Territory to help out a struggling copper mine. No, it’s not to help them with the mining. The conglomerate Consolidated American Mining Corporation has decided it wants to buy this particular mine, and they are doing all they can to convince the owners to sell. There’s just one major problem – the owners don’t want to sell. And our trio of heroes have been hired to help protect the mine. But against the overwhelming odds, can they do it?

These characters began life in the author’s Holmes on the Range series, and I was happy to follow them over here. The story started a bit slowly, but it isn’t long before the action heats up as the characters find themselves facing overwhelming odds. Yet, I found myself cheering at the end. To be clear, this is more of an action story than a mystery. The characters are a bit thin, but they do have their moments to shine. The reality of racial relations in 1894 is part of the backdrop of the book, and it’s sad to think we ever treated each other this badly. The book is a bit more violent than I normally like, but only a little bit. It is softened some by the humor. If you are looking for an action book set in the old west, you’ll find this the perfect book to pick up.
  
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Debbiereadsbook (1788 KP) rated Beyond the Darkness (Basic Instincts #3) in Books

Oct 9, 2025  
Beyond the Darkness (Basic Instincts #3)
Beyond the Darkness (Basic Instincts #3)
Thom Collins | 2025 | Contemporary, Crime, LGBTQ+, Mystery, Romance
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
plot twist I did not see coming!
Independent reviewer for Archaeolibrarian, I was gifted my copy of this book.

This is book 3 in the Basic Instincts series but you don't need to have read the other two books for this to make sense. I've only read book 2, and I loved that book.

And I loved this one too, bar for one thing and I'll come back to that in a mo.

Again, I'd like to commend Collins on a blinder of a twist I did not see coming! I had my doubts, when they were saying who might have been behind it all, but my idea was way, WAY off base and I loved being thrown for a loop!

I really, really do not want to see that film Hudson was in! Sounds gory and violent and not really my thing.

The book is dark and deadly and some of it is on page, but I do think that it is necessary to get the point across.

Some emotional moments, some steamy, but the focus is on the play and the chaos that comes with it.

That thing? But for one solitary chapter, only Hudson has a say. Luke has a chapter and that is the only reason I cannot give this 5 stars! I think if he had no say at all, I might have been tipped over to 5 stars, though! Weird, I know but ya'll know my book feelings!

so, a very VERY good

4 stars

*same worded review will appear elsewhere