Edge of Seat Ending

ALL of Robert B. Parker's Revelation, the ninth Virgil and Everett book, written by Robert Knott is excellent.  But I found the ending to be especially wow wow wow wow!  Excellent.

#8 and Still Great!

Robert Knott is a really good writer.  He is the perfect person to carry on Robert B. Parker's stories of Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch.  Blackjack is one of the best.  Marshall Cole and Deputy Marshall Hitch ride on!  Again, I urge everyone to read this series.  Fans of westerns, fans of Parker, fans of Spenser, fans of Jesse Stone, fans of Sunny Randall.

Perfect in Every Way

I flew through The Bridge.  Robert Knott is incredible.  It is like Robert B. Parker is alive and well and writing.  So funny, so Virgil, so Everett.  If you haven't read this series, start it now, while it's only on the seventh book.  There are so many Spensers, it is hard to catch up but man, man, man, this is just so good.

Funny!

Seth is an uncommon name and so for a long time, I got Seth MacFarlane confused with Seth Rogen.  They are not the same.  Seth MacFarlane wrote A Million Ways to Die in the West as a screenplay and then made it into this here novel.  A Million Ways to Die in the West was a movie that came out this May and I remember seeing the commercials and thinking it looked very funny, but a little crude and so I wouldn't go see it, because I couldn't take my mom.  I was drawn in right away by the blurb on the back, which was hilarious.  Seriously. Being a fan of Virgil and Everett, I thought that this would be like those books, but it was NOT.  But it was extremely enjoyable!  And a very quick listen!

Virgil and Everett, together again

Ah...this was just wonderful.  Wonderful.  Wonderful.  Wonderful.  Bull Run is the sixth book in the Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch series and I have to say that it was just like RBP was back from the dead.  It has been said by many fans that of those who are carrying on Parker's characters, Ace Atkins, Michael Brandman and Knott, Knott does the best job.  As I always say about this series, if you love westerns, you will love it, if you don't love westerns you will love it!

Back in the Saddle

It was so great to see that Virgil and Everett are still alive and well, even though Robert B. Parker is gone.  Ironhorse was written by the guy who wrote the screen play for Appaloosa, Robert Knott.   You can tell that it isn't written totally by Parker, it is kinda wordy, but I really enjoyed it.  Especially the dialog between friends, now Marshall Virgil Cole and Deputy Marshall Everett Hitch. When they talk about Allie, it is hilarious!  My friend Karen and I, are of course, Virgil and Everett and she is reading it now, too.  About half of the book takes place on a train.  The train is robbed by some old enemies of our duo and the Governor of Texas finds his family is jeopardy.  But don't worry, Virgil and Everett are on it!

Love Me a Western

I am probably more surprised than anyone that I have fallen in love with westerns. First it was Virgil and Everett and now it is Logan Sackett. I mean aren't westerns supposed to be for old dudes? But now that I think about it...what ISN'T a girl to love about rugged, honorable, hot men? I mean...why do old dudes like westerns? I think In the case of Virgil, Everett and Logan, well, I can't think of any girl who wouldn't fall in love with these guys! I met Logan Sackett in my first Louis L'Amour book ever, Ride the Dark Trail.   Man. It was good, good, good. I caught the first 1/2 hour of it on Book Radio, and had to get the CD. Logan is a drifter from Tennessee who ends up in Colorado where Em Talon, a woman in her 60s, is trying to defend her home and land from a dirtbag in town and his boys who want to take it from her. Talon is a tough as nails and it turns out, she is a Sackett from Tennessee, too. Logan starts to ride for Em and help her defend her ranch. I loved this book! I loved strong Logan. And I loved Em, too because she is one strong woman! I especially love this quote from Logan, "

"The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for." Yeah, it ends with a preposition, but still....

This is the end

my only friend, the end. MAN I LOVE THAT SONG. Anyway...I don't love this fact: Blue-Eyed Devil is the end. The last Hitch and Cole novel. I still don't know if Karen is Hitch or I am. But as I've said, we both know who Allie is, and that is even more clear in Blue.

This book is fantastic.

Read them all.

Read them and weep knowing that Parker is gone.

Am I Everett or Virgil?

So my friend Karen and I have read Appaloosa and we definately agree that we are Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole. We just can't figure out who is who. If you and your friends have a strong sense about right and wrong and you like to see justice done your way, I bet you'll have the same discussion once you read this western by Robert B. Parker. Sigh, yes, that's right...the late Robert B. Parker. I'm still getting used to that. I hadn't read a western before Appaloosa and I never had any intention of reading one. One day though I saw that Parker had a new book out and I assumed it was a Spenser or Jesse Stone or Sunny Randall one and I put it on hold at the library. Imagine my serious disappointment when it came in and I discovered it was a western. Once I was ten pages into it though, I was hooked. This book is also a film by the same name about two cowboys, Hitch and Cole who are hired to protect a town from the very nasty crook and his gang who have been terrorizing it.