Bodacious Creed: a Steampunk Zombie Western by Jonathan FesmireMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
James Creed is a US Marshal and has travelled to Santa Cruz CA to find at catch an infamous killer called Corwin Blake. Blake guns Creed down but he is brought back by Anna, a young woman in a lab under a brothel who has also given him some physical improvements that give him strength and speed. He now needs to work with the brothel madam, a bounty hunter and the remaining marshals to battle the criminal syndicate protecting Blake who are now creating zombies out of criminals who had been killed.
This was a charming merge between the wild west and steampunk in a story about US marshals trying to control criminals who are dabbling with advanced technology. It was seamlessly intertwined with the story of Anna and the way she saved James Creed from death and their relationship. It was really nice for there to be a strong woman who makes all the technical discoveries and be much more capable than the male who is working for the criminal syndicate doing similar sorts of work. The book was well written, everything was clearly described and there were lots of twists and turns in the story so you couldn't be bored. I liked the morality discussion around whether it was right to have and use technology to bring people back from the dead.
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