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Westland
In the distant future past, a tyrannical federal government controls a hell hole known as Westland. A ruthless band of outlaws called the Banditos have crushed the Rebel army, but there remain a few pockets of resistance. One of these rebels is a young gunslinger named Lane Grayson, who wants his own brand of revenge.
A whore named Rosa must fight for her life as she embarks on a career she never chose. Her ruthless boss will do anything to make her suffer, but is struggling with his living nightmare.
A sadistic general indulges his sick fantasy, as a corrupt gambler joins the wild and unpredictable circuit with his partner in crime.
Welcome to hell. Welcome to Westland.
A whore named Rosa must fight for her life as she embarks on a career she never chose. Her ruthless boss will do anything to make her suffer, but is struggling with his living nightmare.
A sadistic general indulges his sick fantasy, as a corrupt gambler joins the wild and unpredictable circuit with his partner in crime.
Welcome to hell. Welcome to Westland.
197 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 28, 2013
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Thom Young
115 books76 followersThom Young is a writer from Texas. His work has been in PBS Newshour, The Wall Street Journal, The Oxford Review, and over a hundred literary journals. A 2008 Million Writers Award and 2016 Pushcart Prize nominee. His work was recently featured in the Friction Series in over 700 Barnes and Noble locations.
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April 12, 2024
Do NOT Waste Your Time on This Book … It’s Pitiful!
First off — this book is REALLY poorly written and edited …. paragraphs are broken into multiple segments, in the middle of a sentence. The writing is horrible. The story sucks.
This is a Western, but only in a generic sense … it takes place in a future time after a major war involving the USA and Mexico, where at least the SouthWestern USA states were ceded back to Mexico. And the vermin who still run around those areas are Banditos or soldiers or rebels or outlaws or Madams or prostitutes or who-knows-what-sort of scum they’ve turned into? But this book illustrates complete, degrading contempt for the women who live in these lawless territories, and while the men are generally not screwed over in the same way as the women — there’s not much ‘good’ to say about any of them.
This book has near constant killings and rapes, and it’s difficult for The Reader to keep track of all the characters that are shot or stabbed or sexually defiled.
Surely there’s a story in here, somewhere, but darn if I’ve figured it out.
My recommendation is don’t even feign interest in this tale; it’s completely worthless. If I could give this book 0-stars, I would; the 1-star I’m forced to live with provides far too much generosity.
First off — this book is REALLY poorly written and edited …. paragraphs are broken into multiple segments, in the middle of a sentence. The writing is horrible. The story sucks.
This is a Western, but only in a generic sense … it takes place in a future time after a major war involving the USA and Mexico, where at least the SouthWestern USA states were ceded back to Mexico. And the vermin who still run around those areas are Banditos or soldiers or rebels or outlaws or Madams or prostitutes or who-knows-what-sort of scum they’ve turned into? But this book illustrates complete, degrading contempt for the women who live in these lawless territories, and while the men are generally not screwed over in the same way as the women — there’s not much ‘good’ to say about any of them.
This book has near constant killings and rapes, and it’s difficult for The Reader to keep track of all the characters that are shot or stabbed or sexually defiled.
Surely there’s a story in here, somewhere, but darn if I’ve figured it out.
My recommendation is don’t even feign interest in this tale; it’s completely worthless. If I could give this book 0-stars, I would; the 1-star I’m forced to live with provides far too much generosity.
April 6, 2021
I actually abonded this book. Was not what I was hoping for.
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