A review by td3
Blood Oath by Melissa Lenhardt

4.0

Blood Oath, a wild and adventurous sequel to Sawbones, captures the rugged west of the post civil war era. By this time the army is fighting the Indian wars and chasing fugitives through the untamed countryside. One such fugitive is Catherine Bennett, aka Laura Elliston.

Readers were left with a cliffhanger at the ending of Sawbones and Blood Oath picks up the story and takes readers on a wild adventure through Indian territory with Laura and Captain Kindle.

I think I enjoyed this one even better than the first in the series. There are many intense moments and just when you think the couple is safe, their situation changes and they are thrown into another hornet’s nest to escape from.

In this novel, we learn more about Captain Kindle’s past and we are given a close look at how complicated relations were between the settlers and the Indians.

True to form, Melissa Lenhardt leaves readers with another cliffhanger to be continued in the next novel. I’m looking forward to reading Badlands to see how the saga ends.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Orbit Books, Redhook for allowing me to read a galley and give my honest review.