James Patterson presents a bold new heroine–a cross between Katniss Everdeen and Annie Oakley: Serendipity Jones, the fastest sharpshooter in tomorrow’s West. Seventeen-year-old Serendipity “Pity” Jones inherited two things from her mother: a pair of six shooters and perfect aim. She’s been offered a life of fame and fortune in Cessation, a glittering city where lawlessness is a way of life. … is a way of life. But the price she pays for her freedom may be too great….
In this extraordinary debut from Lyndsay Ely, the West is once again wild after a Second Civil War fractures the U.S. into a broken, dangerous land. Pity’s struggle against the dark and twisted underbelly of a corrupt city will haunt you long after the final bullet is shot.more
Gunslinger Girl
By lyndsayely
A girl who can draw a pistol faster than any man. A United States devastated by a Second Civil War. A decadent city teeming with vice and a particular kind of virtue. Lyndsay Ely imagines a new West where gunslinger Serendipity “Pity” Jones seeks her fortune. And you won’t be able to put this book down until you finish Pity’s thrilling story. I know I couldn’t.
I am so in love with this book! YA SFF Westerns is apparently a genre I need more of as I realized my favorite anime is Trigun and I am in love with K. Lynn Smith’s graphic novel Plume, which will be getting a review shortly as well. I really loved the character in this book, Pity Jones, who just wanted to get out of her small abusive farming community and see the world, and more importantly, to be free.
The characters in this book are all spectacular and I loved how Ely weaved together her city and her community. It has great world building, great tech ideas for post war, and brings on enough mystery to keep me wanting more.
It is rare for me to want to reread something, but this is definitely a book I want to read again, and wish for another book that I know won’t be coming 🙁 It wraps up well, leaving your imagination to fill in the future.
A definite recommendation from me! Check this book out!
Characters are intense, tons of action, a real journey.
I’m on the fence about this book. I felt like it was interesting at the time I was reading it but I’m not sure I’ll bother with the next book in the series. I just didn’t become invested in their fates.
Good read!
Nope. This book was not for me. I was super excited for this books release since I am a huge lover of westerns in books and movies. But I could not get into this book at all. I figured I’d power through it because maybe it would get better. No such luck. Gunslinger Girl was not what I was expecting or hoping for. It led to a huge disappointment. Nothing about this book interested me and it left me deeply saddened.
What a great first novel. I loved this book. It is set in a future dystopian wild west. The characters are colorful, layered and not quite what they seem to be. The plot is filled with unexpected twists and turns. It was truly a book that was hard to put down. I look forward to reading more from this new author. And I hope she brings back Serendipity Jones and the characters that were left standing at the end of the book.