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muhrrynn's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Xenophobia, Classism, Confinement, Trafficking, Death, Drug use, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, and Hate crime
nnecatrix's review
5.0
I started listening to this audiobook without realizing that it is the third book in a series of tales about deducifying cowpokes in the Wild West in the 1890s. It didn't take long to determine that I had to go back and listen to the first two as soon as possible after finishing this one. The story is immediately engaging and the characters are entertainingly drawn. This installment takes place in San Francisco, mostly in and around Chinatown. Having just visited that very place for the first time, I was particularly pleased that I had some of the geography in my head as Big Red described it from a pre-1906 perspective. Oh, how I would love to see this on the big screen! But Hockensmith does an excellent job bringing the city and the characters to life, and he spins a great yarn in the process. Now I just have to wait for Holmes on the Range to make it back to the library so I can join up again with Big Red, Old Red, and all their friends and enemies.
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