Dead Reckoning (Hardcover)

from goorgoahead

See the full review on Short & Sweet Reviews! Dead Reckoning is a novel that manages to combine several interesting genres into one story: zombies, westerns, and steampunk, all set against the backdrop of the post-Civil War US. Amazingly, no one aspect of this totally overwhelms the others. It tr...

from msjessie

I had a lot of unexpected fun with this quick-moving tale of zombies in Texas - even when the steampunk aspect came in unexpectedly I was more than game for a late addition. I'm not one much for reading western novels in general; I grew up with a Louis L'Amour and Tony Hillerman-novel-guzzling da...

from SunnySD

Gunslinger Jett Gallatin, disguised as a boy and on the hunt for her missing twin, is all set to fend off a generic town drunk when zombies attack. Down the road a piece army scout White Fox has just encountered independent inventor Honoria Gibbons. White Fox is searching for any trace of the wha...

from lyrrael

I read about two thirds of this book, until the little group figured out everything that was going on in about five pages of exposition. I really miss when Mercedes Lackey wrote for adults. I think this book wouldn't be too far out of the range of something an eight year old friend of mine who'...

from A_Reader_of_Fictions

Originally posted here. If Cherie Priest's Boneshaker and Wild, Wild West had a lovechild, it would be Dead Reckoning. The book is filled with zombie mayhem from beginning to end in a wild west, steampunk setting. Add in a girl dressed as a boy, some crazy scientists, and religious cult, and you'...