The Bastard Boys was a really great read. I enjoyed the simplicity of it. It is a little predictable and a little cheesy at times. I imagine the storyline being conjured up by an 8-year-old version of myself. No insult to the author in any way. I just mean that if I was 8 and just watched my first western movie and laid awake at night conjuring up my own western in my head, it would be Bastard Boys. The ending got a little too cheesy for me, but overall a tied up ending-no loose ends, which I ap...

There’s only one reason for a cowpoke to read The Bastard Boys of Montezuma – it’s more fun than playin’ with the toys God gave you. Saddle up for the ride of your life through the Old West with Cash Holliday and Marshall Earp, fast friends with quick draws and a shared past of tall tales. Told in the first person, aw-shucks lingo of Lightning Flash Cash, the narrative lurches from gunfight to gunfight through the gambling halls and brothels of Montezuma, Dodge City, Tombstone and more, includin...

Picking this up for a fun read is strongly recommended. It is marketed and sold as a historical fiction, and while that's true, I'm unsure of where the line between historical fiction and fan-fiction blur, as this gently touches that line. The story is based around the children of two famous western-era, real life heroes: Doc Holiday and Wyatt Earp. The first chapter starts of with a literal bang, and really sets the stage for the western theme and the characters as notorious, freelance bounty h...

Set in 1896 this western has an interesting theme with the two main characters as the mature progeny of Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. They have a detective agency in a tough town with the story being told by Cash Holliday who is equally proficient with a six gun as his father was reputed to be. The main characters are quite well drawn and so are some of the less desirable individuals they meet along the way in their adventurous quest. At the start of the story and at later points I found some of ...