makenna 's review for:

Gunslinger Girl by Lyndsay Ely

3.0

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At the beginning of this book I was really enjoying it. I didn't know quite what to expect other than it was supposed to be a mix of sci-fi and western, and it partially met those expectations, but for the most part it didn't. It starts of with Pity being stuck in a commune with a horrible father who is selling her off because she is fertile and then Pity runs off with her best friend. At that point I was on bored with this book, I was excited to read about the plot of them trying to survive on the run, but then it turned into what felt like something totally different. Pity ends up going to a town (Cessation) where she ends up joining a theater group, and the story turns into her learning to fit in with these new people. For the most part there wasn't anything that I really liked about the book after Pity got to Cessation, and I didn't like the fact that I was expecting to get one thing and ended up getting something else from this story. Near the end, it does loop back around to the dystopian aspect of the book of wanting to take down the leaders and what not, but by that point I just wasn't interested anymore. Overall, I just wasn't that impressed, I have never read any Western books before so I can't compare it to any others, but this book did sort of get me in the mood to read others because I want to know what one that I actually like would be like.