Gunslinger Girl

paperback, 448 pages

Published Dec. 4, 2018 by jimmy patterson.

ISBN:
978-0-316-55524-1
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In a post-Second Civil War lawless West, sharpshooter Serendipity "Pity" Jones stars in, and lives at, the Theater Vespertine, but there is a dark cost to her freedom that Pity may not be willing to pay.

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I could not put this book down, and powered through it in a (long) evening.

Serendipity "Pity" Jones lives on a commune with her father and brothers after the Second Civil War, but when her father decides to ship her off to become someone's bride, she flees, taking her deceased mother's prized pair of revolvers. Things don't exactly go as planned, and she ends up in Cessation, a city just beyond the reach of the government. There, she's brought to Selene, who gives her a chance to prove her worth at the Theatre Vespertine, which is full of death-defying acts. If Pity can give the audience a show, she can stay. Pity finds her place and gains a family of sorts in Casimir's employees (Casimir being the brothel/gaming hall run by a woman named Selene), only to find it all crumbling around her when a presidential hopeful comes to town, …