A Red Winter in the West - WESTERN HORRORRRRR!
The world dodged a bullet. The forces that tried to usher is a new era madness, mayhem, and monsters were defeated at the zero hour, but a rift remained open. Through that rift an endless winter poured forth, and with it, the creatures of nightmares rode the frozen blasts. Two unlikely heroes emerge. Annie Miller was looking for some semblance of a normal life, hooked up with a cattle company, but on her first drive, the evil denizens buried her fellow rustlers and she had to flee to a home that was soon to be under attack. Carson Ptolemy, a man hell bent on revenge soon learns that no matter how fast he could draw his six-shooter, sometimes destiny has other plans. And now those plans involve the Prometheus Society’s master plan - the true end of the world. Now Annie must battle her own desire for vengeance and doing what must be done to save existence as she knows it.
A Red Winter in the West by C. S. Humble is my first venture into Western Horror. It is the sequel to The Massacre at Yellow Hill but works well as a stand alone novel. Humble gives enough contextual clues to allow the reader to move forward in the story and not get lost.
That is something I find rare in many series. I had not read Yellow Hill before picking this one up, and I was able to follow along seamlessly, though I will say that I intend on going back and seeing what lead up to the journeys of Annie and Carson.
The setting was solid, the story taking place in the frontier mid-west, and having watched enough Western style movies in my day, I could see each frontier town Annie traveled to, each saloon she wandered into. The characters were developed well, even being the second book, each of the main characters had an arc and Humble developed them well. The monsters were well done, not trying to overdo the creepiness but giving the reader just enough to use their imagination to complete the scene. Action was abundant and well-choreographed and kept the pace throughout the book. There were plenty of surprises and twists throughout as well, always keeping the reader guessing about who was the next to go or who to trust. I would gladly recommend this book, either as a sequel or a standalone, to anyone that wants to jump into the sub-genre of Western Horror.
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