Writers should read outside their genre to sharpen craft. This old-school Western novel delivers vivid sensory detail, straightforward storytelling, and what the speaker calls candy for the mind, with descriptions of saddle wax and the outback that stick.
If you write fantasy, some of the best things you can ever do is read history. You write history and nonfiction, some of the best things you can do as far as learning character development, how to portray someone, is writing, reading fiction, thriller, fantasy, etc. So as a writer, this book was actually, was really entertaining. Candy for the mind. Big brute, Lone Star, beats up bad guy, gets girl. Just bloody relax. That's how it's going to go. It's like cowboying the wild. And I really actually enjoyed it. Now, I want you to— I want to take you to task. If you think you're too big and too sophisticated, then what you're going to do is miss out on some of the best description I've read, period. I'm an old— I used to herd sheep and cattle for a living, putting myself through college. I could smell saddle wax reading this thing. I could smell what it was like being out there in, in, out the outback running sheep and cattle. This guy does a phenomenal job.
