A review by seattle_andrea
Silver on the Road by Laura Anne Gilman

3.0

In general I enjoyed the concept of the "Devil's West" and would have liked to see a more clearly defined magic theory or backstory. The reader following the uneducated protagonist, Isobel, while she discovers her abilities can tend to feel like lazy story telling. It would have been nice if there were more examples earlier in the book about the types of abilities that people have or what is the 'law' of the land. That being said, I did enjoy the more tactile descriptions of life on the road and it made me wish I could grab a cowboy hat and go horseback riding!