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Review of 'Red Country' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Entertaining Western-fantasy. I've thought some about why you would want to write a Western this way. In some sense it is just a re-naming of things, the Indians are called something else, a large blonde man is said to be from somewhere or other, but he would be Scandinavian in a non-fantasy world - maybe it gives the author more flexibility. He could, for example, say that all of his Indians are left-handed or something. It has all the stock Western story elements: fording the river, the storm on the prairie, the coward who shows his worth, the mild-mannered gunfighter, etc. [No guns though, just swords, spears and arrows as in most fantasy worlds].