5/9/2023 0 Comments Vengeance road book![]() ![]() ![]() Prior to Liluye’s appearance, much of Vengeance Road is colored with anti-native sentiment, which I absolutely grant is on par for White settler in this timeframe, so while that made me uncomfortable as a 21st century reader, I was able to recognize the authenticity. The first big problem is the way Bowman approached the introduction and characterization of Liluye, an Apache whom Kate rescues from a burning building and then engages as a “scout” while searching for a mythical gold mine. That is, until the book derailed quite suddenly in the second half and became…well, “a fucking mess” is about the most accurate descriptor. There were some moments of soul-baring and sentimentality that felt off with the rest of the text, but by and large I believed in Vengeance Road and Kate’s story. And for much of the story, the concept works well. Kate is an angry girl with a cause, and Bowman doesn’t pretend otherwise. It is, of course, a story with a lot of grit and blood and shooting and revenge-these are things that come with the territory. ![]() In her novel, Vengeance Road, Erin Bowman takes readers on a journey through rough, dangerous 1870s Arizona, in a story told with the voice of Kate Thompson, an 18-year-old who has just come home to find her father brutally murdered. ![]()
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