Book Review: Left-Hand Kelly by Elisabeth Grace Foley
This novella is a very accessible and a great read.
While I was reading it I could almost imagine Foley sitting at a camp fire with a circle of friends, crickets rasping in the background and the logs popping gently. The audience, with cold beers to hand, listening as Foley told her tale.
A story not in the typical Western mould. Not of fearless hard staring gunmen, but about ordinary folk living in hard times when men felt they had to act like men rather than as themselves and the unwanted consequences that this brought about.
I also had a look at what other people thought on Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com and Goodreads.com, looking only at the reviews that gave a verbal review and not just a rating. There was only one review on Amazon.co.uk and it was mine! Of the three reviews on Amazon.com, all gave ratings of 4 stars and above. The focus of comments was that the novella concentrates less on the shoot-outs typical of the genre and more on the lives of ordinary people. Several of the reviews in Goodreads.com were replicated from the Amazon reviews, but the new ones also gave ratings of 4 and 5 stars.
