Fiction / Weird West/Horror/Twisted/Historical/A Heckuva Ride
Tor Books
June 27, 2017
ISBN-10 : 0765390094
ISBN-13 : 978-0765390097
368 pages
5 Stars
These books are stand-alone in a series, but I strongly urge you to read Six Tun Tarot (Book 1) first. Then you can read the books in any order. Six Gun Tarot gives the foundation on which this series is written. Since book 3 came at the same time as book one, I read it next.
This story is told in two separate timelines. The earlier one, in the 1720s tells us about the infamous pirate queen, Anne Bonney. Miss Bonney is a force to be reckoned with as the escapes the gallows, delivers a son, and searches for the lost city of bones somewhere in northern Africa.
One hundred fifty years later, in 1870 Anne’s great-great-great-granddaughter, Maude Stapleton, is a widow who is raising her daughter alone, until Maude’s father interferes, and takes the daughter from Maude and from Golgotha to raise her as a proper young lady and marry her off to the landed gentry of South Carolina. Alas, Maude’s dander is up. She needs to get her daughter back, her inheritance back, and deal with the Sons of Typhon all at the same time.
Her father obviously never understood, perhaps never heard, the adage about Hell hath no fury like that of a woman scorned, let alone the advice to never get between a mama bear and her cub. Especially when that woman, that bear, is named Maude Stapleton!
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