Kate’s arc progressed fantastically, full of fury and grief, gradually healing without ever losing her fire. Suspenseful, fast-paced, and so very atmospheric, the dirt and the dust, the speech patterns, I felt thoroughly pulled in to this western world.Kate, dressed as a boy, saddles up and makes it her mission to hunt down and kill the men who hung her father. Overall this was a very pleasant read but sometimes I just wanted more out of it. I did think this book wrapped up nicely and I was pretty satisfied with the ending, besides the loose ends with the side characters that I just mentioned. So much was hinted about them regarding their lives and backstory and relationships but we never got to learn more. Also, a lot of side characters that came into the story later, especially Liluye, as well as Evelyn, that I just wanted to know more about, to me, they were some of the most interesting characters, maybe even more interesting than the main characters in my mind, but we really never got to learn that much about them. There were also some other characters deaths or plot twists that, while I didn't really see them coming, They also didn't have much of an impact on me.

Kate's father dies on the first or second page of this book and then the rest of the book is a journey for revenge, but I just didn't care enough about the father to care if Kate got justice for him or not. For me, it was just missing a bit of something that made me really care about it. I didn't love the romance that developed between the characters so much. I thought the characters all had very realistic and very interesting character traits and personalities. I did really enjoy the characters and setting of the book.

I had a hard time getting into it at first, but I am glad I stuck with it. I definitely enjoyed the second half way more than the first.

I enjoyed this but in some parts of this book I wanted a bit more out of it.

Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman