Friday
means Friday’s Forgotten Books hosted by Patti Abbott. I believe Todd Mason is collecting the
links this week. If not, I will be home much later today to adjust links as
Sandi has a multi hour infusion of IVIG today at Texas Oncology at Medical City
Dallas Hospital. For us, Fridays are not just about FFB as they are usually the
days we are at the hospital for one thing or another with her cancer fight.
I’m
partial to westerns. Probably because my dad was a huge fan of them and they
were the first movies I remember seeing on the big screen. Dad was not such a
fan of the books, but if it was a movie it was only a matter of time before we
were there as a family. I had already planned to read and review this for today
and had to laugh when I came across the Halloween reference.
May
your Halloween be a safe one for you and yours and thank you for reading my
effort today as well as this blog for the last ten years. Things are far
different now than when I started all those years ago and the focus has expanded
quite a bit by necessity as life has impacted me. But, books still matter and I
think reviews do too.
Originally published in 1999 by Dell Books, Texas
Vigilante is a sequel to Outrage in Blanco. Some of the events
of the first book are mentioned in Texas Vigilante and, by necessity,
in this review so you have been warned.
It has been a few months since Ella Taine took over
Jonathan Crossland’s ranch after he died. These past months have not been easy.
Ranching in Texas is difficult things were such that she had to go into debt to
a bank in San Antonio. She didn’t like doing it, but she had and so far things
are holding together. She has good help and that includes Lane Tolbert. She
recently hired him as he was desperately in need of a job to support his wife,
Sue, and his very young daughter. Ellie cares about Lane and his wife a lot,
but she absolutely adores Lauire. That smart and beautiful little girl is the
daughter Ellie never had and her presence is almost like she is her own child.
One of the real pleasures is sitting down and reading with her.
Mr. Crossland had an office with a small library of
books by authors such as Irving, Cooper, Melville, Hawthorne, Shakespeare, and
others. Laurie is not quite ready for Shakespeare, but the other books she can
handle. Their latest read features a skinny school teacher by the name of
Ichabod Crane and a certain headless horseman. Neither Ellie, Laurie, or the
others on the ranch have any idea that a real life horror is about to be visited
upon them thanks to a prison escape and a certain prisoner bent on revenge.
Following the very good Outrage at Blanco isn’t
easy, but Bill Crider does it masterfully in Texas Vigilante. Like in
the preceding book, the theme of revenge is again a major part of this western
as are the choices folks make as they move through life. Ellie is, by necessity, not as much a part of
everything as in the first book, but she makes herself well known in a novel
that cracks with a gunshot every few pages. A mighty good western, Texas
Vigilante is a good one and quite the sequel to “Outrage at Blanco.
Texas Vigilante (Ellie Taine Book Two)
Bill
Crider
Brash
Books
September
2014
ASIN:
B00KAJX6BQ
E-Book
(also available in paperback)
304
Pages
$2.99
Using funds in my Amazon Associate account I picked
this up to read and review awhile back.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2014
Thanks, Kevin!
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