The western genre has so few good authors who lend their skills to characters that keep this era alive. This is Book #2 in the US Marshall "Trusty" Dawson series. This book finds the marshall fighting a personal battle. His wife has died in child birth and her family has sworn a reward for Trusty's death and taken his daughter. As he uses every resource he has to find her, he'll have to fight off those who would collect the reward and leave his daughter an orphan.

Thanks to netgalley.com and Kensington Publishing for the advance ARC for my honest review and I purchased a copy from amazon.com. Something I like to do, to support one of my favorite authors.

It was the late author Bill Crider, with his 'Outrage at Blanco' novel that made me love revenge stories so much and in away revenge stories for me will always be a tribute to him.

One of my favorite niches in the Western genre is the lawman novels, with 'The Broken Bow' checks off every box, as too what you would want in Western Lawman yarn.

You have an intertwining storyline, that involves U.S. Deputy Marshall Trusty Dawson with his youth, reminiscing about his relationship with Jessica Marberry, about possibly being a dad, having a daughter with Jessica, the bounty placed on him by her dad, more about his time in the Military and a whorehouse in Missouri, where the Madam made him a man and it's repetitive.

Must say that U.S. Marshal Trusty Dawson is a real likable character, he's wiley, you don't want him on your trail, you get to see he's human, relatable for the reader and don't want to give too much away! I do think that with 'The Broken Bow', the storyline would have been better with less repetitive, a new storyline added, more details or the capture of Mrs. Marberry.

The Author Larry D. Sweazy, one of my favorite Western authors, if your itching to give the genre a try, you can't go wrong starting with him and you get another piece into the puzzle of whose one of the ghost writers for the Johnstone estate.

I discovered Larry Sweazy on his last book, and LOVE his style of writing. So many modern westerns feel contrived, as if the authors are writing from a script from book to book - telling the same story with different names. Its SO refreshing to find an original! THANK you! Enjoyed this thoroughly and so will our patrons!