Uhm... What to say, what to say...

I did not hate it. Let that be clear. It took me a while get used to the writing style and the odd and unnatural dialogues - but then it was okay.

I just didn't feel it. I fell off the western bandwagon halfway through and I couldn't climb back up, and then there was a growing variety of pet peeves in the book that began to irritate and aggravate me. And I don't normally skim, but a) this was a western which I usually love, and b) this was a group read, so I couldn't dnf it. So I continued, but I began to care less and less about the characters; sure,

Spoiler

Bess was cute, but I felt she treated Venters a little... unfairly, as in, she took to complaining a little too quickly? And Jane was a nag, too, I thought - trying to change Lassiter into a man he wasn't.

So I can't tell you which character I liked most, because there was none of them that really captured me in the end.