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Sixes Wild #2
Sixes Wild: Echoes
Life's not all whiskey and revelry for this bunny gunslinger. In a recent tangle, Six had cause to dynamite a lion crime lord in his silver mine. The kitty had the nerve to survive and vanish with one of the guns tied to her dead father's spirit. A sensible hare would go to ground, lying low while she tracked down the varmint. And that's just what she'd do, had she not stumbled into love with the local fruit bat sheriff. Love’s all well and good, but courting a gentleman when you're no proper lady is a challenge Six never thought she would have to tackle.
All told, Frontier life is enough to trounce anybody. But then, Six Shooter has never been just any bunny.
All told, Frontier life is enough to trounce anybody. But then, Six Shooter has never been just any bunny.
156 pages, Paperback
Published July 1, 2016
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January 25, 2017
More a romance book told in vignettes than its predecessor.
There are wonderful moments of character development spread throughout, giving us a much better understanding of the relationship between Six and her lawbat, Blake.
The title gives us a hint of the larger role the echoes, resonance of spirits or of the past, will play in the world going forward.
Throughout the book I wanted more of a through line of plot. The chapters mostly read like clever little mini stories that build on one another but do not, to my mind, drive hard enough at the core of what Six wants. She is out to retrieve her father's pistol, taken from her. A few of the chapters deal with this quest more than others but it never felt truly like the driving force in her narrative.
I recognize in the style of this book old Western pulp stories and serials, rather than novels as one might be expecting. The book is handily designed to be read a chapter at a time rather than to tear through as I often do, and did in this case.
With that said, Blake's character develops a pretty clear motivation early on and must cope with expectation and desire versus necessity and reality. That struggle comes across strongly in most of the book.
This is very much a romance novel. There's a not insignificant portion of it devoted to the revelation of character relationship through lovemaking. The scenes are well written and relevant to character development and so never really felt like they overstayed their welcome. For such a short novella, though,maybe one or two scenes fewer or shorter would not have been amiss.
Ultimately I give this book a firm recommendation if you were a fan of the first. This one takes the universe Tempe has set up and pushes it further, giving us a unique setting where an element of the fantastic provides a unique spark to an otherwise ordinary Wild West.
Its failings are minor, but present, and mostly center around the fact that the book feels like a bridge, setting up pieces on the board that aren't meant to come into play until the endgame. It's an endgame I look very forward to reading as it plays out.
There are wonderful moments of character development spread throughout, giving us a much better understanding of the relationship between Six and her lawbat, Blake.
The title gives us a hint of the larger role the echoes, resonance of spirits or of the past, will play in the world going forward.
Throughout the book I wanted more of a through line of plot. The chapters mostly read like clever little mini stories that build on one another but do not, to my mind, drive hard enough at the core of what Six wants. She is out to retrieve her father's pistol, taken from her. A few of the chapters deal with this quest more than others but it never felt truly like the driving force in her narrative.
I recognize in the style of this book old Western pulp stories and serials, rather than novels as one might be expecting. The book is handily designed to be read a chapter at a time rather than to tear through as I often do, and did in this case.
With that said, Blake's character develops a pretty clear motivation early on and must cope with expectation and desire versus necessity and reality. That struggle comes across strongly in most of the book.
This is very much a romance novel. There's a not insignificant portion of it devoted to the revelation of character relationship through lovemaking. The scenes are well written and relevant to character development and so never really felt like they overstayed their welcome. For such a short novella, though,maybe one or two scenes fewer or shorter would not have been amiss.
Ultimately I give this book a firm recommendation if you were a fan of the first. This one takes the universe Tempe has set up and pushes it further, giving us a unique setting where an element of the fantastic provides a unique spark to an otherwise ordinary Wild West.
Its failings are minor, but present, and mostly center around the fact that the book feels like a bridge, setting up pieces on the board that aren't meant to come into play until the endgame. It's an endgame I look very forward to reading as it plays out.
February 17, 2024
Shortly after finishing the first book, I ordered the second because I was eager to see where the story would go in the sequel. While I enjoyed my time with this book greatly, I will say I was disappointed in the progression of the plot. I feel like a lot of the story beats that were teased didn't come up and they were pushed off to be resolved in the next book in the series. With all that said, I still loved what this book was, which was a set of interconnected short stories that give us a better understanding of Six and Blake's relationship with each other. It's a whole book of dates, promises, and the occasional high-stakes adventure. I love the dynamic these characters have and their romance is one that I was hungry for more of from the last book. Six and Blake are just a very fun couple to read about. I was mowing through the chapters at a brisk pace because their dialogue and interactions are amazing.
October 6, 2023
Sixes Wild: Echoes is a racy adult furry novel featuring a sassy, gun-slinging outlaw bunn and her slightly more civil batty partner - dare I say lover - who just happens to be the sheriff of a sleepy Arizona town called White Rock in the Wild West.
If the pairing excites you, this book is well worth a read. The sexy misadventures of this unlikely duo are very well written - without being too repetitive - and form the back-bone of the book. It is pretty thin on plot otherwise, though, which is my main criticism of this book.
Tempe's descriptions of this spaghetti western world is excellent and shows a deep knowledge and appreciation of the places and cultures of the places their adventure takes them. His action scenes are well choreographed and his use of anthropomorphic characters is excellent.
If the pairing excites you, this book is well worth a read. The sexy misadventures of this unlikely duo are very well written - without being too repetitive - and form the back-bone of the book. It is pretty thin on plot otherwise, though, which is my main criticism of this book.
Tempe's descriptions of this spaghetti western world is excellent and shows a deep knowledge and appreciation of the places and cultures of the places their adventure takes them. His action scenes are well choreographed and his use of anthropomorphic characters is excellent.
December 13, 2020
In the first sequel to Tempe O’Kun’s Sixes Wild: Manifest Destiny, which he dedicates to Sophie “for courage” and Megan “for the sass,” the perspective remains in first-person, ping-ponging between two of the protagonists and narrators of its predecessor, the bat sheriff Jordan Blake and the rabbit gunwoman Six Shooter, the latter finding a lead to treasure in the Arizona desert, which leads to the acquisition of an engraved tortoise idol. The two celebrate their find with fornication, with plenty of it occurring throughout the book, which, while unnecessary, is well-described.
A lead on the lion Hayes, who stole the companion firearm to one of Six’s guns that once belonged to her father, takes the bat and the rabbit to the middle of nowhere in California, where they find Fort Calico and obtain a little more information about the location of the hare’s stolen armament, which she vows to retake. In the sequel, as one can probably infer, Blake and Six intensify their flourishing romance, with the two heading to Texas to catch an Italian opera from the seventeenth century starring bats, which, while to her incoherent, does give a little insight into the habits of the flying foxes.
Six also helps Blake with occasional odds and ends such as fighting the Pine City Marten Gang, trying to retrieve gold bars from king scorpions, and attending a stag dance in Prescott, which the author indicates was a prospective capital of the Arizona Territory. A meeting with the territorial governor comes as well, along with a meeting of Arizona’s indigenous coyotes, concluding with an enigmatic narrator, likely a rabbit due to description, in the epilogue, indicating the story of Six is not finished. Overall, this is a good anthropomorphic story, with little confusion as to the species of characters, and is recommended to adults who enjoyed its predecessor.
A lead on the lion Hayes, who stole the companion firearm to one of Six’s guns that once belonged to her father, takes the bat and the rabbit to the middle of nowhere in California, where they find Fort Calico and obtain a little more information about the location of the hare’s stolen armament, which she vows to retake. In the sequel, as one can probably infer, Blake and Six intensify their flourishing romance, with the two heading to Texas to catch an Italian opera from the seventeenth century starring bats, which, while to her incoherent, does give a little insight into the habits of the flying foxes.
Six also helps Blake with occasional odds and ends such as fighting the Pine City Marten Gang, trying to retrieve gold bars from king scorpions, and attending a stag dance in Prescott, which the author indicates was a prospective capital of the Arizona Territory. A meeting with the territorial governor comes as well, along with a meeting of Arizona’s indigenous coyotes, concluding with an enigmatic narrator, likely a rabbit due to description, in the epilogue, indicating the story of Six is not finished. Overall, this is a good anthropomorphic story, with little confusion as to the species of characters, and is recommended to adults who enjoyed its predecessor.
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