A Book of Tongues: Volume One of the Hexslinger Series (Paperback) by Gemma Files

from kalyka

For a debut novel (heck, for a novel, period), A Book of Tongues is a fantastic western fantasy. Two years following the American Civil War, Ed Morrow, an agent for the Pinkertons, must infiltrate an outlaw gang led by "Reverend" Asher Rook, an former Confederate chaplain turned hexslinger, and h...

from peterdarbyshire

The weird west has never been weirder. Or more depraved. Hexslingers, Aztec gods, viciously gay gunslingers, cunning Pinkertons, and the end of the world itself. Files blasts open your mind and then flips you a coin in payment afterward. Pour yourself a drink. You'll need it.

from Katyas

Please note: I read this book in November, 2011 from an e-galley I received from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. My Synopsis: “Reverend” Ash Rook and Chess Pargeter run one of the most notorious gangs in the weird west, using Rev's hexes in order to rob and murder their way across th...

from lkernagh

I will admit I really didn't have any idea what I was in for when I decided to read this one. I loved the cover and figured a post American Civil War alternate history story with magic, mythology and other weirdness would be an interesting change of pace. The wild west part of this alternate real...

from rrainer

I really wanted to love this. I did. I tried. But I just didn't connect with it. The writing is solid, the premise and worldbuilding great, and it's exactly the sort of thing that I should have adored, on every level--from the setting to the system of magic to the central relationship--but it jus...