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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. World Fantasy–finalist Bull (War for the Oaks) takes huge chances and achieves something distinctively wonderful with this subtle reworking of a western legend. The taming of Tombstone, Ariz., by Wyatt Earp, his brothers and their pal Doc Holliday is a cherished American myth of stoic heroism. Bull approaches the story from a different angle, considering matters that may or may not have escaped Wyatt's chilly attention. When tough-minded widow Mildred Benjamin and drifter Jesse Fox realize that dark magic is manipulating people for a sorcerer's selfish ends, they must decide what they can and should do about it, in the process discovering who they truly are. Mixing fantasy with Old West lore is risky, but Bull takes time to make the place and the people real before undeniably supernatural forces appear. The magic is less flashy than in many fantasy novels, but it's vivid and deeply felt. Readers will think about the story long after it ends, savoring the writing and imagining what the characters might do next. (July)
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From Booklist
Wyatt Earp and his brothers famously got themselves into a tussle in Tombstone, and due to the assorted badges they wore, the legend of the western lawman was born. Bull skews the events leading up to the shootout into a shadow struggle between sorcerers who divine inexplicable power in the silver-booming land. Someone has killed a Chinese whore in a blood ritual intended to stake a claim. But what sort of claim, and whose? Despite all the marquee names on hand and the fact that Bull's Doc Holliday marvelously embodies his whiskey-addled southern gentleman facade, two of Bull's creations, journalist Mildred Benjamin, who's trying to balance propriety and her increasingly dissonant view of so-called magic, and Jesse Fox, inadvertently drawn into the struggle because of his own affinity for land-sorcery, get the most face time. Extraheavy on exposition—it isn't clear until very near the end what's really going on, and by then the fun is nearly over—this solid if anticlimactic fantasy-western crossbreed may enchant and frustrate fans in both genre camps about equally. Chipman, Ian
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