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Dear Reader,

Cal Cooper has a prize on his head and the cavalry on his heels. There's only one place he can go: No Man's Land, a piece of Wild West not yet claimed by any state. It's where the outcasts go: Humans with too many enemies, but also elves and vampires, werewolves and goblins. All the mythologies converge in a dusty town called Hexed Springs. Luke Atkinson debuts with a fantasy western that pulled me right in.

The worldbuilding will remind us fantasy readers of the Dresden Files: All the stories are true, all the monsters exist in an otherwise normal world. Cal Cooper himself, a gunslinger far away from home, looks like a young Roland of Gilead. However, he has no Dark Tower to find. Without a goal or a purpose he becomes Hexed Springs' odd-jobs troubleshooter, hunting monsters for hire. Until he gets hired to find a little girl. On his way to her Cooper steps on too many feet and gets pulled into the big fight.

Blood Oath sports a likeable male lead, a great supporting cast and a tense plotline. No romance - if that's a must-have for you, you'll be disappointed. Me, I found it refreshing to read about a hero who can talk to women without immediately falling in love.

Is Cal Cooper a hero? Not on the first pages. But he grows into one. I'm looking forward to meeting him again in book 2.

Yours sincerely
Christina Widmann de Fran

Blood Oath: No Man's Land Book 1 by Luke Atkinson
ISBN: 9780578309057

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