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auri_underthing's review
adventurous
dark
funny
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
This book was darker than the first two but still enjoyable.
Content Warnings
Minor: Rape
celestelee's review
5.0
I just love these characters. This book is certainly not great fiction and the cadence of their conversations follow the same pattern from book to book as do the evil villians. But still...I just love these characters.
felinehex's review
5.0
I like to listen to westerns as I drive (back and forth from AZ to WA) it calms the cat.
ANYWAY, I couldn't get #3 in this series, so I just borrowed the book and read it.
Love these 2 characters.
Now I can't decide if I want to read the rest of the series and have nothing to listen to next summer.... or wait.
ANYWAY, I couldn't get #3 in this series, so I just borrowed the book and read it.
Love these 2 characters.
Now I can't decide if I want to read the rest of the series and have nothing to listen to next summer.... or wait.
birdmanseven's review
4.0
I'm happy to report that Brimstone was a return to form for this brief series. I loved the first book, Appaloosa, but felt like book two (Resolution) was awkward and forced. Brimstone managed to put the charcters in a fresh situation and allowed the them to move and grow. Very good. I wish there were more than four books!
Tune in for my spotlight on Robert B. Parker: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/episode-28-a-hamburgers-bookmark
Tune in for my spotlight on Robert B. Parker: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/episode-28-a-hamburgers-bookmark
adelayedteacher's review
2.0
Mildly entertaining but lacking much like the previous books in the series.
ericwelch's review
4.0
Audiobook: I listen to a lot of audiobooks in the summer while mowing the lawn which takes about 4-5 hours and given the substantial rain we have had this summer, it’s at least once a week. It’s nice to have something entertaining while negotiating trees and hills.
This series has been wonderfully engaging. Third in the series featuring Cole and Hitch. They have found Allie, Virgil’s former lover who had run away following the abortive affair in Appaloosa. She was in Brimstone working as a whore. They rescue her from the situation and Virgil and Hitch take jobs in Brimstone as deputy sheriffs while Virgil and Allie try to get back on track. She has found religion under the suspect tutelage of Parnell who seems to be in league with Pike, a local saloon owner who is being tracked by a large Indian. Virgil and Hitch have their hands full.
The series has been continued following Parker’s death by Robert Knott. I am reluctant to
try them as I suspect capturing Parker’s unique style in this western series will be very difficult. The audio version, read by Rex Linn, which I sampled, doesn’t come close to Titus Welliver’s narration in the three original works by Parker. The narrator is very important in any audiobook and Welliver does a wonderful job with Parker’s unique cadence that’s so apparent in both the western and Jesse Stone series.
If you like Jesse Stone, I’m sure you’ll like Cole and Hitch.
This series has been wonderfully engaging. Third in the series featuring Cole and Hitch. They have found Allie, Virgil’s former lover who had run away following the abortive affair in Appaloosa. She was in Brimstone working as a whore. They rescue her from the situation and Virgil and Hitch take jobs in Brimstone as deputy sheriffs while Virgil and Allie try to get back on track. She has found religion under the suspect tutelage of Parnell who seems to be in league with Pike, a local saloon owner who is being tracked by a large Indian. Virgil and Hitch have their hands full.
The series has been continued following Parker’s death by Robert Knott. I am reluctant to
try them as I suspect capturing Parker’s unique style in this western series will be very difficult. The audio version, read by Rex Linn, which I sampled, doesn’t come close to Titus Welliver’s narration in the three original works by Parker. The narrator is very important in any audiobook and Welliver does a wonderful job with Parker’s unique cadence that’s so apparent in both the western and Jesse Stone series.
If you like Jesse Stone, I’m sure you’ll like Cole and Hitch.
andydcaf2d's review against another edition
3.0
Had a Louis Lamour feel too it. Definitely not Spenser
brettt's review against another edition
1.0
With Brimstone, Robert B. Parker supposedly brings to a close his trilogy featuring Old West lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. In Appaloosa and Resolution, detective novelist Parker found a new vein of creativity and energy that his other series of books had begun to sorely lack. Time will tell if Parker decides to continue Cole and Hitch as a series; he had originally planned for Appaloosa as a stand-alone, but fan response brought forth the other two books.
In Brimstone, Cole and Hitch find themselves in a town of that name, having found Cole's wandering lady-love, Allie French. They hire on as deputies and see that trouble may be in the offing between saloon owner Pike and town preacher Brother Percival. Allie has begun to attend services at Brother Percival's church, but Cole and Hitch must find a way to keep the law and play no favorites.
Brimstone is a fun enough read for a Western fan but is also easily the weakest of the three Cole-Hitch books. That Percival is up to no good is obvious from the get-go. The evil clergyman is a lazy trick for any novelist and it's especially so for Parker; in 36 Spenser novels, eight Jesse Stone novels, six Sunny Randall novels and a dozen others, Parker has had probably one honest, straight-dealing religious character (a nun who works with runaways in 2002's Jesse Stone entry, Death in Paradise). Brimstone stands head, shoulders and Stetson above anything Parker's modern characters have done in the last several years, but this kind of shoddy shortcut makes me hope he either really is finished with Cole and Hitch or he can manage to match future volumes to Appaloosa's level.
Original available here.
In Brimstone, Cole and Hitch find themselves in a town of that name, having found Cole's wandering lady-love, Allie French. They hire on as deputies and see that trouble may be in the offing between saloon owner Pike and town preacher Brother Percival. Allie has begun to attend services at Brother Percival's church, but Cole and Hitch must find a way to keep the law and play no favorites.
Brimstone is a fun enough read for a Western fan but is also easily the weakest of the three Cole-Hitch books. That Percival is up to no good is obvious from the get-go. The evil clergyman is a lazy trick for any novelist and it's especially so for Parker; in 36 Spenser novels, eight Jesse Stone novels, six Sunny Randall novels and a dozen others, Parker has had probably one honest, straight-dealing religious character (a nun who works with runaways in 2002's Jesse Stone entry, Death in Paradise). Brimstone stands head, shoulders and Stetson above anything Parker's modern characters have done in the last several years, but this kind of shoddy shortcut makes me hope he either really is finished with Cole and Hitch or he can manage to match future volumes to Appaloosa's level.
Original available here.