A review by amandagstevens
Last Stand at Saber River by Elmore Leonard

4.0

Leonard isn't the author to go to if you want a deep immersing sense of the Old West, and his dialogue could belong to modern characters. But he's definitely one to go to for a story driven by tension and characters who step off the page with larger-than-life personalities, which is at least one part of the great mythology of the Western. A few of the twists were expected (in Western trope fashion, which I happen to enjoy or I wouldn't keep reading Westerns), but a few of them were unexpected too. I enjoyed this as a typical Leonard read: I got to root for the good guy and anticipate the explosive climax of death for everybody else; I plowed through it fast and sighed with relief on the final page. No doubt I'll read him again.