Tess Mercury and the Crooked Pink Eleanor Jane Prophet 9781622010110 Books
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In the years after the American Civil War, the West is wild, and the East is run by the robber barons battling each other for power and money. The range is untamed and blood-soaked, and the cities are dazzling tributes to culture and questionable scientific development. Outlaws roam free on the frontiers, and crooked lawmen and Pinkertons compete with lawless bounty hunters for the prices on their heads. Tess Mercury and her posse are the best damn bounty hunters in the West. When Tess and her posse, trick shooter "Bonny" Quimby Burton, mad scientist "Lightning" Hazel Harley and Vaughn, a former slave, are run out of town after brawling with some card players who don't take kindly to being swindled by Quimby, Tess decides a life of leisure just doesn't suit them. They go in search of a new bounty to hunt and discover the case of Zeke "Angel" Cooper, a Pinkerton wanted for murder in Boston. The hunt for Angel leads them through the untamed frontier where Indians lie in wait, young men fighting for honor are shot dead in the streets, Che Chucho and his posse of peculiar bounty hunters are hunting them, and savvy, sophisticated Madam Esther Star courts the big bugs from D.C. at her famous brothel, the Governor's Mansion. When Tess and her posse finally run into Angel, they're tangled up in an even greater mystery involving faulty death rays, crooked lawmen, missing secretaries, murdered government agents, bribery, corrupt Congressman, clockwork horses, Tess' long lost husband, and Sterling Rush, the technology robber baron who might just be a more dangerous enemy than any of them have ever encountered.
Tess Mercury and the Crooked Pink Eleanor Jane Prophet 9781622010110 Books
This was a romping, fun story. I bought it because the blurb reminded me of one of my favorite shows from the 1990s, "The Adventures of Briscoe County Junior".This story did not disappoint. It was full of dusty trails and towns, strong women (a big plus, to me!), wacky characters and wackier inventions. The twisting turns of the posse's investigation takes the reader from the Wild West to the 'Civilized' East, and there are plenty of dead ends and stone walls to make the reader despair of them ever figuring it out. The interaction of the characters is witty and impolitic, and made me laugh out loud on more than one occasion.
Tess is the glue that keeps the posse together, Vaughn the voice of reason, Quimby the sex appeal and Hazel the mad-scientist. They are a great combination and compliment each other's strengths. I love the irreverent way they approach 'the job' and trust in serendipity as much as skill to get their man.
It is not (nor is it meant to be, I am sure) a John Grisham mystery, but it is fun. I didn't have to work hard to read this, it was pure enjoyment for the sake of enjoyment.
I guess it could be considered Steampunk? As I said I was expecting the technology, but I was also expecting some kind of explanation for it. Since there was none, I was a little baffled by 'death rays' and airships being so widely accepted in the 1870s. If the story had a Steampunk tag, I missed it.
Semi-spoiler: I did NOT realize the story was going 'to be continued....'
The lack of that fifth star comes from some of the gaffs in grammar and sentence structure. I believe some of it was designed to be folksy, since the story is told in first person, but there were a few whoppers that left me shaking, if not scratching my head. Enough that I started highlighting them:
Some were half formed metaphors - like "He strode through the grim gauntlet out of the saloon." Or "It was painted in shining metallic." (?!? That was the entire sentence!)
Others were strange word choices. "His expression was narrow." Okay. Or a "lacy black bodice that showed off her callipygian figure." (Bodice covers the waist up, 'callipygian' refers to the buttocks.) Or someone's mouth "turned down in a gruesome smile".
Others were downright funny. "Dancing together on the floor." "...nibbled the crisp, salty bacon on the plate in front of me."
These were the most notable, and undoubtedly the result of me being picky. They distracted me and took me 'out of the bubble' enough times that I felt it warranted the loss of a star. Oh, and there was an awful lot of smirking going on--which got to be a little annoying toward the end.
Overall, "Tess Mercury and the Crooked Pink" is a book I would recommend to my friends as a humorous, Steampunk-esque way to spend some free time. I will probably read the sequel.
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Tess Mercury and the Crooked Pink Eleanor Jane Prophet 9781622010110 Books Reviews
There is much new technology being created with gunpowder at it's heart. And there are bounty hunters, and Pinkerton agents. One such agent gets framed for murder, which Tess and her "posse" discover as they start to track him down for the bounty. Along the way, they encounter the same problems as today; buyable politicians and government employees, and rich manufactory owners who think that they are above the law.
But this book is fun! The characters really are, and the situations often take a comedic turn. Add in some nifty plot twists, and you have a rolicking good time travelling the breadth and length of the US.
Cynthia really gets into this performance and adds to the depth of each character, really rounding out the personality.
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Tess Mercury and her posse are the best bounty hunters of the region. Set in a parallel U.S.A after the civil war, the story has some steampunk elements, but it is essentially a western. The posse has never failed when bounty hunting. In this case the wanted man is a supposed crooked pink, but after some investigations, they are not so sure that he is guilty of what he is accused of, but merely framed by greater powers. They will be involved in a dangerous game clearly out of their league, and there will be even more surprises along the way.
I love westerns, and if they include feminine characters then I am totally sold. At first I was not sure if this was going to be a pure western or a steampunk novel, since the steampunk elements are not introduced from the beginning. I think I would have made it more evident, maybe in the descriptions or as a background information.
The main four characters are archetypes and they are not fully developed, but this did not prevent me from enjoying the story, since this is mainly an adventure book. The story is well built and it is quite entertaining, but the end felt anticlimactic. I was not sure what to think about it, and do not know yet.
About the middle of the book I started noticing tags like 'I shrugged' and ' I sighed', and from that moment onwards I was a bit bothered by them, since they appeared very often and it seemed the characters where shrugging and sighing all the time. I understand these tags were introduced to join dialogs and make the narration more fluid, but they appeared just too muc, and at the end I was distracted by it.
Cynthia Hemminger did a good job with Southern accents (I have read that narrating this book was quite a challenge</a>), however the low tone sounded a bit strange for me at first. I was not sure if Tess sounded like an old woman on purpose. I found some inconsistencies with Hazel voice and I perceived 'swallowing' noises that were a bit disturbing. In one of the first chapters birds chirping were also audible, and for a moment I was not sure if this was intended. I guess it was not, because it did not happen again. Some audio pauses felt too abrupt, but this is just being very picky.
I enjoyed this book very much, and the accent gave it a just right Southern atmosphere. I would love to read about new adventures of Tess Mercury and her posse.
A very good story that was fun to read
This was a romping, fun story. I bought it because the blurb reminded me of one of my favorite shows from the 1990s, "The Adventures of Briscoe County Junior".
This story did not disappoint. It was full of dusty trails and towns, strong women (a big plus, to me!), wacky characters and wackier inventions. The twisting turns of the posse's investigation takes the reader from the Wild West to the 'Civilized' East, and there are plenty of dead ends and stone walls to make the reader despair of them ever figuring it out. The interaction of the characters is witty and impolitic, and made me laugh out loud on more than one occasion.
Tess is the glue that keeps the posse together, Vaughn the voice of reason, Quimby the sex appeal and Hazel the mad-scientist. They are a great combination and compliment each other's strengths. I love the irreverent way they approach 'the job' and trust in serendipity as much as skill to get their man.
It is not (nor is it meant to be, I am sure) a John Grisham mystery, but it is fun. I didn't have to work hard to read this, it was pure enjoyment for the sake of enjoyment.
I guess it could be considered Steampunk? As I said I was expecting the technology, but I was also expecting some kind of explanation for it. Since there was none, I was a little baffled by 'death rays' and airships being so widely accepted in the 1870s. If the story had a Steampunk tag, I missed it.
Semi-spoiler I did NOT realize the story was going 'to be continued....'
The lack of that fifth star comes from some of the gaffs in grammar and sentence structure. I believe some of it was designed to be folksy, since the story is told in first person, but there were a few whoppers that left me shaking, if not scratching my head. Enough that I started highlighting them
Some were half formed metaphors - like "He strode through the grim gauntlet out of the saloon." Or "It was painted in shining metallic." (?!? That was the entire sentence!)
Others were strange word choices. "His expression was narrow." Okay. Or a "lacy black bodice that showed off her callipygian figure." (Bodice covers the waist up, 'callipygian' refers to the buttocks.) Or someone's mouth "turned down in a gruesome smile".
Others were downright funny. "Dancing together on the floor." "...nibbled the crisp, salty bacon on the plate in front of me."
These were the most notable, and undoubtedly the result of me being picky. They distracted me and took me 'out of the bubble' enough times that I felt it warranted the loss of a star. Oh, and there was an awful lot of smirking going on--which got to be a little annoying toward the end.
Overall, "Tess Mercury and the Crooked Pink" is a book I would recommend to my friends as a humorous, Steampunk-esque way to spend some free time. I will probably read the sequel.
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