Status Updates From One Night in Sixes

Because of the POV characters, some of whom are so obtuse in their thinking I find myself oscillating between understanding what's going on and not having a clue - or at least a clue as to the motivations of the characters and their scheming.

Now we get to the price of everyone's actions

Almost finally understand how the different tribes fit together and their various beliefs and how it all interacts.

So many cultures...so many names....losing track of the details. But still interested in where this goes. I thought it would be done by this point in the story.

More great phrasing:

Twoblood snorted, and triggered the fire-pistol to light the wick. “I wouldn’t have hired him, if I’d known he’d made a bride-gift of his balls.” Nevermind, anyway: Yes-Yes was lucky enough to have a family to go home to and a wife to lie beside him, and if he got as much satisfaction from her in the dark as Twoblood did from his service in the daytime, then it was a deal well struck.

...searching Fours’ ageless face and ... black eyes. “To whose benefit?”
Apparently, there was something of keen interest on the floor. “Oh – to yours, of course..." -> I love this writing - instead of "Fours started at the floor"

Awesome quote -> "Anyone not satisfied by this arrangement may direct his complaints to his god or his elder or the horse who ploughed his mother, as long as he does it out of my hearing."

I've got a better idea of what's going on, but still a little unsure of all the rules of this world.

Elim has a very, very bad night.

Poor, poor Elim. Continually dragged beyond his comfort zone...

Seems like the kind of story that could only be told well by a Texan. The Easterner who thinks he knows better. The farmhand who doesn't know how to articulate the things he knows which aren't book-smarts. The mulatto charactrs and the meaning of those characters to others. Very good job writing what you know, Ms Thompson.

"Just like any gun was to be considered loaded, any woman was likewise a lady until proven otherwise – and God help any man without due and fearful respect for either."
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So far a fun story of a guy who thinks he knows so much better because of his lineage.

Another book had on my to-read list since 2014 when I heard an interview with Tex on Sword and Laser.
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“¡Te-chinga!¿Kién keyengañas creyes?¡Wevoso timando eho de
puta!” - pretty good phonetic Spanish....except it's not because this doesn't take place in the Old West - it takes place in an alternate universe West. And I guess I should have realized there was a reason this book was on S&L - there's some magic, too.

I am LOVING this book! The author's sense of voice and place is amazing. The language and dialogue is really engaging. And there are enough breadcrumbs of mystery about the world that has me thinking "what are those creatures/things?" that keeps me reading!

I sold this at the book store when getting rid of some clutter books. So, I guess it'll go unfinished.

I sold this at the book store when getting rid of some clutter books. So, I guess it'll go unfinished.